The word Vesak itself is the Sinhalese language word for the Pali word "Visakha".

卫塞节这个词本身是巴利语的“卫塞迦”的僧伽罗语。

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The official and common language is Divehi, an Indo-European language related to Sinhalese, the language of Sri Lanka.

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。

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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.

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。

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But in 1956, four years after Senanayake's death, Solomon Bandaranaike, the late father of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, swept to power on a pledge to elevate Buddhism and Sinhalese, the main religion and language, to pre-eminent positions.

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At their recent rallies, the most prominent new hardline group, the Buddhist Strength Force (Bodu Bala Sena, BBS) have used coarse, derogatory language to describe Muslim imams and have told the Sinhalese majority not to rent property to Muslims.

BBC: The hardline Buddhists targeting Sri Lanka's Muslims