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Anna Lee Fisher (born August 24, 1949) is an American chemist, emergency physician and former NASA astronaut who was the first mother to fly in space. Fisher became an astronaut candidate with NASA Astronaut Group 8 and joined the Astronaut Office for the development of the Canadarm and the testing of payload bay door contingency spacewalk ...
Myanmar–English Dictionary ( Burmese: မြန်မာ-အင်္ဂလိပ်အဘိဓာန်) is a modern Government project in Myanmar (formerly Burma), first published in 1993 by the Government of Myanmar 's Myanmar Language Commission. [ 1] It is a guide dictionary for translating between English and the Myanmar Language. It ...
The Burmese alphabet ( Burmese: မြန်မာအက္ခရာ myanma akkha.ya, pronounced [mjəmà ʔɛʔkʰəjà]) is an abugida used for writing Burmese. It is ultimately adapted from a Brahmic script, either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India. The Burmese alphabet is also used for the liturgical languages of Pali and Sanskrit.
Sinhala ( Siṁhala) is a Sanskrit term; the corresponding Middle Indo-Aryan ( Eḷu) word is Sīhala . The name is a derivative of siṁha, the Sanskrit word for 'lion'. [ 12] The name is sometimes glossed as 'abode of lions', and attributed to a supposed former abundance of lions on the island.
Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary ( Sinhala: මධුර ඉංග්රීසි–සිංහල ශබ්දකෝෂය) is a free electronic dictionary service developed by Madura Kulatunga. [ 1][ 2] It is available as computer software, an online website and an android app. [ 3][ 4] The dictionary contains over 230,000 definitions ...
The National Institute of Education (NIE), Sri Lanka, based in Maharagama, was established in 1986 under the provisions of the National Institute of Education Act No. 28 of 1985. The aim of the institute is to "provide leadership for the development of general education with quality, equity and relevance in a pluralistic society".
In Myanmar, Facebook’s Free Basics offering ran afoul of the same price floor regulations that restricted the distribution of free SIM cards. Elsewhere, Facebook’s Free Basics program is ...
Exception from the standard are the romanization of Sinhala long "ä" ([æː]) as "ää", and the non-marking of prenasalized stops. Sinhala words of English origin mainly came about during the period of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka. This period saw absorption of several English words into the local language brought about by the ...