EP 13 History of the Sinhalese people | World Stories
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The Sinhalese people are an ethnic group native to Sri Lanka, an island country located in South Asia. They make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, comprising approximately 75% of the country's total population. The Sinhalese have a rich cultural heritage that dates back thousands of years, with a distinct language, religion, and traditions.
Language:
The Sinhalese people speak Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language that is unique to Sri Lanka. Sinhala has its own script and is widely spoken throughout the country. The language has a long literary tradition and is known for its poetic and rhythmic qualities.
Religion:
The majority of Sinhalese people follow Theravada Buddhism, which was introduced to Sri Lanka in the 3rd century BCE and has since become deeply ingrained in their culture and way of life. Buddhism plays a significant role in the daily lives of the Sinhalese, with many observing religious rituals and participating in Buddhist ceremonies.
Culture and Traditions:
Sinhalese culture is diverse and vibrant, influenced by a blend of indigenous traditions, Indian cultural elements, and colonial influences. The Sinhalese people take great pride in their cultural heritage and place importance on family, community, and respect for elders.
Art and Literature:
Sinhalese art and literature have a long history dating back to ancient times. Traditional Sinhalese art includes various forms of dance, music, painting, and sculpture. Folklore, myths, and legends are often depicted in these art forms. Sinhalese literature has produced notable works, including epic poems such as the "Mahavamsa" and "Ramayana."
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As an Interracial and Intercaste person and man who has Sri Lankan heritage and Sinhalese caste through my ancestries(my grandfather was an Interracial person who was a Sri Lankan and his father who was my great grandfather from mother's side),I am extremely so happy and proud to watch the video and slowly learning and speaking Sinhala language,good friends!!!To my fellow Sinhalese caste people,please get me updated if the respective Sinhalese people hailed from modern day Bangladesh historically!!!🙏
Sinhalase ancestor are from Odisha West Bengal region according to Mahavamsa History and
I read Odia Bengali language and Sinhalese language also Sinhalese language similar to Odia Bengali
It's not the Sinhalese who came from Odisha and West Bengal... It's the Sinhas...
They came to the Island of Lanka and mixed with the native Hela people... then it became...
Sinha + Hela = Sinhala
Rubbish who told you this fairy tale? Just look at them their clothing dances features. They are typically South Indian looking and are descended from native Tamil and semi-Tamil speaking Dravidian Yakkas and Nagas, with a lot of South Indian Tamil immigrant blood mixed into them. The north Indian DNA contribution to their genetic makeup is very minimal. More than half the present-day Sinhalese are largely or purely descended from post 15TH century South Indian immigrants. From Tamil Nadu and then Tamil Kerala. Go and read the history of the Sinhalese Karawa, Salagama Durawa and many other service castes and even their so-called elite aristocrats and farmer castes are largely of South Indian origin. DNA studies have proven that the original Sinhalese and the native Sri Lankan Tamils are one and the same people. They are descended from native old Tamil or pre old Tamil speaking Dravidian tribes, who migrated from India during ancient times with some minimal genetic input from a Maratha like people from Northwest India and not from Bengal or Odisha. The ones in the south converted to Buddhism on a large scale and corrupted their ancient Tamil dialect with the Pali/Prakrit and later Sanskrit that came with Buddhism and gradually a new language and identity started to from called SInhalese from one of the ancient Tamil words for the island Chingkallam meaning the read or coppe coloured land by 7AD. This new identity and language was also encouraged by the Theravada Buddhist clergy to preserve and differentiate the ancient Tamil Buddhists, from the rest of the largely Hindu Tamils in the north and east, and in South India, especially after the fall of Buddhism. In the north and east of the island the Tamil speaking native Nagas hardly converted to Buddhism and if they converted it was largely to Mahayana Buddhism and not to Theravadha like in the South of the island but by 8AD , Tamil Buddhism had died off, therefore the ancient Tamil identity and language had survived in these areas. The oldest Tamil name for the island is Eezham or Eelam, which later was Prakritized to Hela
@@rohanrohan2688 hi rohan the yapper😂.. I remember u have shown many bullshit about sinhalese everywhere.. there enough evidence and studies done about the origins of the sinhalese so don't worry making new theories..
le me guess u r tamil😂..
@@ChannaJayawardhana-h1o Please read these DNA results from various Sinhalese and they confirm what I sate and what the latest DNA studies done by Indian and Sri Lankan scientists state. I cannot help if you do not like the truth but badly want to believe in the tooth fairy
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@@ChannaJayawardhana-h1o Sad does not like the truth. Not my problem but yours
Singalars has no histories. They got tamil king's histories and renaming to singala names and then produsing singala histories..😂
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😂Sinhalese has history. Don't show your ignorance here. Even tamils know about our culture ❤
@@ShashakaArchana-lu6ys last kandy king sri vlkrama rajasingan was a tamil king . His real name is kannuchaami. His last signature written in tamil. Then how about dalada palace. And deva nambiya theesan's father name was mooththe sivan. His father was tamil. Then how should his son was a singlese. Kukakoottan king built kanthalaai dam. Then how did you renaming as kullakotuwa?. I am not sure about singalam history. I am sure about Buddhism was spreaded in sri lanka by old tamil people
@@blacktamil9061💀there were Sinhalese kings before South Indian Kings came to power (there was no hair after Sri Weera Parakrama Narendrasinghe king). King විමලධර්මසූරිය (WimalaDharmaSoorya) was a pure Sinhalese and he was the founder of the Kingdom of Kandy😂 and what about අනුරාධපුර (Anuradhapura) Kingdom, පොලොන්නරුව(Polonnaruwa) Kingdom and so many kingdoms were there 😅 you just don't know about it
(some tamils and Pandyans came to power time to time such examples are King Nishshankamalla (නිෂ්ශංකමල්ල) was a Kalinga and he was one of the most respected kings of Sinhalese eventhough he wasn't Sinhalese ethnically 😂)
History is a hard subject to us. And our history is a mix of Buddhism and Hinduism
During king Dewanam Piya Tissa (දේවානම් පිය තිස්ස), King Ashoka's son monk Mahinda (මහින්ද) came to Ancient Sri Lanka and spread Buddhism
@@blacktamil9061Buddhism came after 236 years of the death of buddha from India. And Kingdom of Kandy's last kings were tamil Nayakkar kings (there was no hair so King' s wife brother's in laws took power who were tamils but they became Buddhist over time because in order to get to power you had to be Buddhist in Kingdom of Kandy)
We can find it by DNA test
This is not history, you are just furnishing some info
thank you for your comment.