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(2) Prof. K. M. de Silva in his book " History of Sri Lanka" says that the
Island was first populated by Aryans from the North West and North East of
India. Yet he also readily admits that " we have at present no
archaeological evidence with regard to the early Indo Aryan settlers. No
sites have yet yielded data which could help us identify some of the other
influences which had played upon the Island in the period from 650 B.C. In
particular we have no archaeological finds that could be traced back to
either the West or East coasts of North India" Infact, all that we have are
finds that are traceable to a civilization congruous with - that of South
India. The North Indian origin of the Sinhalese is based on myths, legends
and traditions that crept in recently. But yet the Sinhalese call themselves
Aryans.

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(3) The Sinhalese language, because it contains a large percentage of Pali
and Sanskrit derived words, introduced through the influence of Pali
speaking missionaries and Buddhist chronicles is claimed to have originated
from Pali and Sanskrit, without considering the fact that a very large
percentage ,if not a majority of words are Tamil derived. A Sinhalese
scholar- believed to be- Mudaliyar Gunaratne - in one of his research
articles has said that if Pali was the father of the Sinhalese language then
Tamil was its mother. He has also pointed out that in grammar the Sinhalese
language is closer to Tamil than any other Aryan language. Further Prof.
K.M.de Silva also in his "History of Sri Lanka" accepts that there was
considerable Tamil influence in the vocabulary, idioms and grammatical
structure of the Sinhalese language. Prof. G. C. Mendis in his book "Our
Heritage" has said that if we shared the Sinhalese language of all the
borrowed words we would be left with the core language, and that the
closeness of this core language to a North Indian language would enable us
to trace the area from which the language and immigrants came and that our
knowledge of languages prevented us from coming to any conclusions. The
position remains the same today too. From this statement it is obvious that
no one had considered the closeness of this core language to a South Indian
Dravidian language.

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Recent archaeological excavations have uncovered 9th C.B.C. settlement sites
in Anuradhapura with evidence of writing, showing evidence of a civilization
congruous with that of South India. This shows that Anuradhapura was
inhabited by people with connections with South India before the coming of
Vijaya. Further there are a number of pre-Vijayan settlements all over the
Island. All excavated such sites show evidence of a pre-Vijayan civilization
congruous with that of South India.

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Recent archaeological excavations have uncovered 9th C.B.C. settlement sites
in Anuradhapura with evidence of writing, showing evidence of a civilization
congruous with that of South India. This shows that Anuradhapura was
inhabited by people with connections with South India before the coming of
Vijaya. Further there are a number of pre-Vijayan settlements all over the
Island. All excavated such sites show evidence of a pre-Vijayan civilization
congruous with that of South India.