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An act passed in 1956 declared Tamil as the official language of Sri Lanka.

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The above statement is false.
An act regarding the country's official language was passed in 1956 by the Parliament of Sri Lanka, an island country with a democratic form of the Government system. The Act did not declare Tamil as the official language of the country but Sinhalese. Sinhalese is the language of the majority community of Sri Lanka, which comprise about 74 per cent of the country's total population. They are the Sinhalas and are followers of Buddhism. Tamil is the language of the minority community, the Tamilians.
The correct statement is “An act passed in 1956 declared Sinhalese as the official language of Sri Lanka”.

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