What was the main language used by J. R. Jayewardene?
Tamil
English
Sinhala
Arabic
Answer
J. R. Jayewardene spoke Sinhala as his native language and English as his second language. He was educated in a English-medium school in Colombo and attended the University of Ceylon, where he studied law. Jayewardene was fluent in Sinhala and English, and he used both languages in his public life.
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