CALENDAR: Gregorian; MAIN RECORD: languages used: Sinhala ^si, Tamil ^ta, English ^en; scripts: Sinhala - transliteration; Tamil - transliteration, English - original; TRANSLITERATION: based on the schemes for Sinhala and Tamil in "The World's Writing Systems", ed. by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)