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Why was the transliteration of the official Sinhala and Tamil names of Sri Lanka I added, removed? It is standard practice on wiki articles for countries to have the official native names transliterated.
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. L293D (☎ • ✎) 11:58, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
From The book of Duarte Barbosa: Including the coasts of Malabar, eastern India, further India, China and the Indian archipelago (1967)
"The table which follows gives the value of the Ceylon(Sri Lanka) rubies in fanams, the weights being given in quilates. The quilate is stated to be half a fanam in weight. Thus a Ceylon ruby of 1 quilate (| fanam) is worth 30 fanams in money, while two of ..."
I didn't get the full details because his book was in snippet preview. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.216.83.162 (talk) 12:48, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
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The Prime Minister is now the Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa as changed by the president, his excellency, My Maithreepala Sirisena with his right as per the 9th Amendment. Please be kind enough to read the Sinhala version of the Sri Lankan constitution. Sinhala is the official language of Sri Lanka. Ethertoair (talk) 07:13, 31 October 2018 (UTC)