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v. t. e. The Sinhala script ( Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva ), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. [3]
Sinhala (/ ˈ s ɪ n h ə l ə, ˈ s ɪ ŋ ə l ə / SIN-hə-lə, SING-ə-lə; [2] Sinhala: සිංහල, siṁhala, [ˈsiŋɦələ]), [3] sometimes called Sinhalese (/ ˌ s ɪ n (h) ə ˈ l iː z, ˌ s ɪ ŋ (ɡ) ə ˈ l iː z / SIN-(h)ə-LEEZ, SING-(g)ə-LEEZ), is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the ...
The Sinhalese people ( Sinhala: සිංහල ජනතාව, romanized: Sinhala Janathāva ), also known as the Sinhalese or Sinhala people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group native to the island of Sri Lanka. [15] [16] They are the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, constituting about 75% of the Sri Lankan population and number more ...
ELP. Sri Lankan Sign Language. Sri Lankan Sign Language ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා සංඥා භාෂාව, romanized: Śrī Laṁkā Saṁgnā Bhāṣāva) is a visual language used by deaf people in Sri Lanka and has regional variations stemming from the 25 Deaf schools in Sri Lanka.
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The World’s Writing Systems, catalogue of 294 writing systems, each with a typographic reference glyph and Unicode status. Deseret Alphabet. ScriptSource– a dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world. v.
Sinhala is a Unicode block containing characters for the Sinhala and Pali languages of Sri Lanka, and is also used for writing Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala allocation is loosely based on the ISCII standard, except that Sinhala contains extra prenasalized consonant letters, leading to inconsistencies with other ISCII-Unicode script allocations.
Introduction. Sinhala braille just as any other braille code is used in education and a vast range of literature whether it be for information, pleasure or commercial purposes. The blind community of Sri Lanka is alienating gradually from the use of braille due to a number of reasons. A recent survey reveals that only 15% of blind people use ...