June 2016

Language pluralism through the administrative service: The use of the official languages policy in Sri Lanka

This paper explains how Sri Lanka’s Administrative Service has contributed to the use of the Official Language Policy (OLP) in Sri Lanka. This policy supports ‘Sinhala’ and ‘Tamil’ as official languages (that is, mother tongue) and ‘English’ as the link language. However the implementation of this policy has become problematic due to critical ethno-political factors. Since 2009...

Author(s): Menik Ranmal Wakkumbura