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Udawalawe, Sri Lanka: How to pronounce the name of the town we’re in

September 19, 2015 Jim Leave a Comment

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You, too, can speak Sinhala. Let’s do a quick lesson in how to pronounce the name of the town in this story — Udawalawe.

Ooh-duh-wall-away

See, I told you it was simple. But not so simple that we didn’t embarrass ourselves a few times before we mastered it.

Hey, speaking of languages spoken in Sri Lanka, Sinhala and Tamil are the nation’s official languages, but almost everyone we’re run into seems to speak at least a little English. Maybe that’s a holdover from the days when Sri Lanka was a British colony or maybe it’s because English is the international language of business or maybe a little of both.

Luckily, almost every road sign has all three languages or we’d never know where we are.

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