ශ්‍රී ලංකාව (Sri Lanka)

About 20.653 million people live in Sri Lanka. Capital is Colombo (administrative/judical) and Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative). Located in Asia. Currency is the Rupee (lkr). Telephone prefix is +94

Sinhala (සිංහල) is the main language of Sri Lanka (13.19 million speakers)

4 languages spoken mainly here:

50,000 speakers of Creole Malay, Sri Lankan
12,800 speakers of Sri Lankan Sign Language
300 speakers of Veddah

3 languages also spoken here:

3 million speakers of Tamil (தமிழ்)
10,000 speakers of English
Indo-Portuguese

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