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Prof. W.S. Karunatillake

Prof. W.S. Karunatillake

 Etymological Lexicon of the Sinhala
Languageʼ

'State Literary Award' Ra:jya Sahithya Sammanaya

Sinhala Bhasha
Vya:karanayaʼ

An Introduction to Spoken Tamil, Literary Sinhala, Literary Sinhala Inflected

Forms: Synopsis with a Transliteration Guide to Sinhala script, Samples of
Contemporary Sinhala Prose, Readings in Colloquial Sinhala with Grammar
and Notes, and An Introduction to Spoken Sinhala.
ʻKarunaʼ

[Professor Karunatillake had a] deep and insightful interest

in Sri Lankan culture, including of course Sinhala folk
traditions and practices but also extending to Sri Lankan
Tamil culture. He has actively, in fact eagerly, embedded
this in his teaching, and he has served as well as both an
intellectual and a personal model for students. In short, he
[was]… thoroughly dedicated and accomplished scholar
and teacher. Like Chaucer’s clerk of Oxford, “gladly would
he lerne and gladly teche”.   

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