A trilingual reference work setting English, Sinhala and Chinese side by side, compiled by Faiz Marikar and published in Colombo by Godage International Publishers.
The pairing is a practical one. Chinese has become a working language in Sri Lanka — in construction and infrastructure, in trade, in tourism and in university language classes — and a dictionary that brings it together with both English and Sinhala serves people moving between all three rather than just two. For a Sinhala speaker beginning Chinese, English acts as a bridge; for a Chinese speaker arriving in Sri Lanka, Sinhala is reached through the English they may already have.
It is a book for language students, teachers, interpreters, and anyone working alongside Chinese-speaking colleagues or visitors. Buyers outside Sri Lanka should note that trilingual titles of this kind are produced for the local market and are not commonly stocked abroad, which is often the reason for ordering directly.
Godage International Publishers is a long-established Colombo house publishing in Sinhala and English, with a list that includes reference and educational titles alongside its literary work.
- Author: Faiz Marikar
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: English
- Pages: 377
- ISBN: 9789553032386
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