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[2]  Sandagomi Coperahewa , Colonialism and problems of language policy: formulation of a colonial language policy in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Journal of Advanced Social Studies, 2011.

[3] Corinne Wyss, Language Policy In Sri Lanka Critical Junctures And Resistance Factors Reventing Successful Implementation , University of Ottawa, 2020.

[4] Brutt-Griffler, Janina. “Class, Ethnicity, and Language Rights: An Analysis of British Colonial Policy in Lesotho and Sri Lanka and Some Implications for Language Policy.” Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2002.

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[6] Herath, Sreemali, Language Policy, Ethnic Tensions and Linguistic Rights in Post War

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[7] DeVotta, N., Ethnolinguistic Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka, Politics of Conflict and Peace in Sri Lanka. Manak, 30-69, 2006.

[8] Coperahewa, S, The language planning situation in Sri Lanka, Current Issues in Language Planning Vol. 10, 69-150, 2009.

[9] Kearney, R. Language and the Rise of Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka. Asian Survey, 18(5), 521-534, 1978.

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[11] A. Suresh Canagarajah , Dilemmas in planning English/vernacular relations in post-colonial communities, Journal of Sociolinguistics, vol. 9/3, 418-447, 2005.

[12] Tamil Language (Special Provisions) Act No. 28 of 1958.

[13] The Ceylon (Constitution) Order in Council.

[14] Kodeeswaran v. Attorney General, 1969.

[15] Dilanka Kamali Ratnayake, Language Planning Situations in Sri Lanka and Singapore: A Comparative Study, Manipal International University, 2017.

[16] Birgit Brock-Utne , Language policy and science: Could some African countries learn from some Asian countries?, Springer, 2012.

[17] De Silva Wijeyeratne, R.,  Sinhalese revolutionaries, linguistic nationalism and Buddhism reimagined. In Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka (pp. 133–150), 2014.

[18] Article 20.

[19] Article 21.

[20] DeVotta, N. Ethnolinguistic Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka, Politics of Conflict and Peace in Sri Lanka, 30-69, 2006.

[21] The Constitution Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, 1987.

[22] Koss Malan, The discretionary nature of the official language clause of the Constitution, South African Public Law, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2011.

[23] Rautenbach and Malherbe Staatsreg (2009).

[24] Census, Government of Sri Lanka 2011.

[25] Article 22(2) –(3) of the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

[26] Article 22(5)

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[28] MCM Iqbal, ‘Securing Language Rights: Key Elements in the Peace Process’ (2002) Law & Society Trust  Review.

[29] Art 14(3) of ICCPR.

[30] Dominique Guesdon v France, UN GAOR, 45th sess, UN Doc A/45/40 (1990).

[31] Article 24(2).

[32] Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons and Charles Grabau, ‘Protecting the Rights of Linguistic Minorities: Challenges to

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