Culture Call Sri Lankan Alternative Titles Ceylonese, Lankan Orientation Identification. The formal label of the country is the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. In 1972, the national constitution discarded the title Ceylon as well as embraced the title of Sri Lanka. In Sinhala, the foreign language of the a large number, Sri indicates «blessed» and Lanka is actually the title of the island. The isle’s history of migration, trade, and colonial invasion has resulted in the buildup of a…