斯里兰卡英属殖民时期的语言政策述评

Comment on the Language Policy in Sri Lanka During British Colonial Period

斯里兰卡英属殖民初期,殖民政府主要依靠传教士及传教使团开展英语的引进与推广。十九世纪三十年代,科尔布鲁克委员会报告从法律层面规定了英语作为殖民统治的行政、教育和司法语言,并逐步实施,其影响深远。二十世纪初,民族主义思潮的滥觞激发了斯里兰卡本土语言与英语、本土语言内部之间谁成为官方语言的激烈讨论。英属殖民时期的语言政策深刻地改变了斯里兰卡社会教育模式和结构,间接地激发了独立后的民族矛盾。

In the early days of the British colonial period in Sri Lanka,English language was introduced and promoted mainly by missionaries and missionary missions.In the 1830s,the report of the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission,which legally regulated English as the administrative,educational and judicial language of colonial rule,was implemented gradually and with far-reaching implications.In the early twentieth century,the origins of the nationalist ideology inspired an intense discussion among the indigenous languages and English as well as who became the official language among the indigenous languages.The language policy during the colonial period in Sri Lanka profoundly changed the pattern and structure of social education and strongly influenced the phonetics,vocabulary and grammar of indigenous languages (especially Sinhalese) and objectively nurtured the intellectuals of the younger generation in Sri Lankan,also indirectly stimulated the national contradictions after independence.