马尔代夫的官方语言和最普遍的是迪维西语，一种接近于僧伽罗语(斯里兰卡的语言)的印欧语言。
The official and common language is Divehi, an Indo-European language related to Sinhalese, the language of Sri Lanka.
斯里兰卡内阁已取消了该国的泰米尔语版国歌，并且表示现在这首歌曲必须使用僧伽罗语来演唱。
The sri lankan cabinet has abolished the tamil version of the country's national anthem saying it must be sung now only in the language of the sinhalese majority.
英语在一些诸如斯里兰卡和坦桑尼亚等前殖民地国家遭到了排斥，在那里精英们使其让步于僧伽罗语和斯瓦希里语——这是他们所讲的母语。
English has been rejected in other ex-colonies, such as Sri Lanka and Tanzania, where Anglophone elites gave way to Sinhala - and Swahili-speaking nationalists.
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