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	Sinhala Summary
		Sinhala eliminated aspirated consonants and the consonant r, reduced double consonants to single and diphthongs to vowels, and changed certain consonants (for example, j to d, p to v, and s to h).
		Literary Sinhala is characterized by such features as the distinction of masculine and feminine gender in animate nouns; person, number, and (in some tenses) gender distinctions in verbs; the agreement of verbs and subject; and the existence of a passive tense.
		Sinhala (also referred to as Sinhalese; earlier referred to as Singhalese) is the mother tongue of the Sinhalese, the largest ethnic group of Sri Lanka.
	www.bookrags.com /Sinhala (2209 words)

	Wikinfo \| Sinhala
		Sinhala is the language spoken by the majority of the people living in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon).
		The Tamil language, which belongs to the Dravidian group has influenced the structure and vocabulary of Sinhalese to such an extent that some scholars were erroneously led to believe that Sinhalese belonged to the Dravidian group of languages.
		Sinhala became the official language of Sri Lanka in 1956.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Sinhala (494 words)

	Trilingual Sinhala-Tamil-English National Web Site of Sri Lanka
		Sinhala is a member of the Indo-Aryan family of languages and its script bears close structural resemblance to Thai and Malayalam scripts.
		The Sinhala alphabet consists of 61 symbols: 18 vowel symbols, 41 consonant symbols and 2 semi-consonant symbols.
		It is evident that the Sinhala character set consisting of vowels, semi-consonants, consonants, and consonant modifiers and the Tamil set consisting of vowels, consonants, and consonant modifiers have clear differences, mainly with respect to the size of characters.
	www.isoc.org /inet97/proceedings/E1/E1_3.HTM (2174 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		The Sinhala alphabet is quite similar to other Indic alphabets, as all of them appear to be offshoots of the Sanskrit alphabet.
		However, Sinhala is unique among Indic in certain respects: It is the only Indic that has a specific letter for (the sound of 'a' in bat).
		This alphabet to the right is the Sinhala alphabet as prescribed by the Education Department of Sri Lanka for School Children.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Sinhala_alphabet (201 words)

	decodeunicode.org . Unicode Blocks . Sinhala
		The accepted Sinhala alphabet, however, is the »Sammatha Sinhala Akshara Malawa« that consists of 20 vowels and 41 consonants.
		Sinhala is used to write Sinhala or Sinhalese, a language that belongs to the Indoaryan subgroup of the Indoeuropen languages.
		However, symantics of the Sinhala language was impeded for almost one and a half centuries until it was resurrected by the high priest, Venerable Walivita in the Kandyan era.
	www.decodeunicode.org /w3.php?viewMode=block&ucHex=0D80 (612 words)

	The Sinhala Language at Cornell - Department of Asian Studies
		An early form of Sinhala was written in Brahmi script, in inscriptions dating to the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.E. The form of the script changed significantly between the 4th and 8th centuries C.E. This is a syllabic alphabet in which all consonants have an inherent vowel.
		Sinhala is considered an Indo-Aryan language, though it has also been influenced by members of the Dravidian language group.
		Sinhala (sometimes referred to as Sinhalese) is one of the two local languages in the island country of Sri Lanka (population approx.
	lrc.cornell.edu /asian/courses/sinhala (294 words)

	Alphabets
		The alphabetic type is the most common one, in which each consonant or vowel is represented by a letter.
		It is probably the most logical way to write, but in practice, with the evolution of languages, the alphabetic scripts began having have double letters, accentuation, digraphs, mute letters, more than one letter for the same sound and vice-versa, which makes the script more complex.
		These alphabets are little known in the Western world, but there is a large number of abugidas, used mainly for the several Indian languages and those of South and Southeast Asia, like Hindi and Thai.
	www.ece.utexas.edu /~hpinto/alphabets.html (1220 words)

	Department of Sinhala
		Emphasis will be placed on how Sinhala prose began to decline after the Kurunegala Period and how it began to develop again with the introduction of a new educational system, the printing press, and the establishment of pirivenas and universities.
		The Sinhala prose used in these new books and scientific and critical works including books on subjects such as history, sociology, archaeology, psychology, will be taken into consideration with a view to evaluating the expansion and development of the vocabulary, syntax and flexibility of the language.
		This course is designed to widen the knowledge of the Sinhala word-stock of students reading Sinhala for the Special Degree, through an in-depth study of the derived words, native words, borrowed words, and usage, found in the different phases of the evolution of the Sinhala language.
	www.arts.pdn.ac.lk /sinhala/courses.html (2868 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		A mixed Sinhala alphabet (Mishra Sinhala Akshara Malawa) consists of 18 vowels and 41 consonants.
		The Sinhala and Tamil languages consist of unique characters for most of the consonants known in the English language as well as the vowels.
		To efficiently use Sinhala and Tamil characters on a QWERTY keyboard, a methodical, logical and easy translation needs to be carried out from Roman characters to Sinhala and Tamil characters: a task usually achieved via a character allocation table.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/10/14/fea04.html (1497 words)

	Learn Sinhala Language - Free Conversational Sinhala Lessons Online - Common Sinhala Words and Phrases
		The key is to immerse yourself in the language and use it as often as possible in order to build up your skills of speaking it and listening to it, understanding and comprehending it...
		The Phrasebase website is the ultimate environment allowing you to read an Sinhala Alphabet based phonetic spelling of common and useful everyday phrases in effort to memorize it and it's meaning.
		Sinhala Language Exchange Pen-Pals - Community of people from around the world interested in teaching you their language and sharing their culture with you.
	www.phrasebase.com /learn/sinhala.php (1866 words)

	WWW Virtual Library - Sri Lanka - Languages, Literature, Books & Book Reviews
		The fact is that Sinhala is not only a member of the Aryan group of languages, but also of a larger linguistic group, the Indo-European family, which includes all the major languages of Europe, Iran and Southern Asia.
		Sinhala, 6000 years ago (It would seem surprising to many that the origins of the Sinhala language could be traced back to 6,000 years ago.
		A Short History of Sinhala Language (The Sinhala language came to Sri Lanka with the original migrants from North India who are traditionally considered to be the founders of the Sinhala nation.
	www.lankalibrary.com /books.html (1220 words)

	Sinhalese language - Information at Halfvalue.com
		Sinhala has its own writing system (see Sinhala alphabet) which is an offspring of the Brahmi script.
		The oldest Sinhala inscriptions were written in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE; the oldest literary works date from the 9th century CE.
		The language of the Veddah resembles Sinhala to a great extent, although it has a large number of words which cannot be traced to another language.
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Sinhalese_language (1103 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		The Sinhala alphabet is used to write Sinhalese.
		It is a modified Nagari abugida which is composed almost entirely of curlicues.
		It is different enough from the other Nagari scripts that is Unicode page does not match theirs.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/s/si/sinhala_alphabet.html (38 words)

	Sinhala - Language Directory
		The Tamil language, which belongs to the Dravidian group has influenced the structure and vocabulary of Sinhalese to such an extent that some scholars were erroneously led to believe that Sinhalese belonged to the Dravidian group of languages.
		Nationalist movements in the first half of the 20th century saw the establishment of the "helabasa" movement, led by the grammarian Munidasa Kumaratunga, which gave new vigour to the language.
		Sinhala became the official language of Sri Lanka in 1956.
	language-directory.50webs.com /languages/sinhala.htm (423 words)

	Alphabets
		The alphabetic type is the most common one, in which each consonant or vowel is represented by a letter.
		It is probably the most logical way to write, but in practice, with the evolution of languages, the alphabetic scripts began having have double letters, accentuation, digraphs, mute letters, more than one letter for the same sound and vice-versa, which makes the script more complex.
		These alphabets are little known in the Western world, but there is a large number of abugidas, used mainly for the several Indian languages and those of South and Southeast Asia, like Hindi and Thai.
	users.ece.utexas.edu /~hpinto/alphabets.html (1220 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		Its study, therefore, with the distinct sound and shape of each character of the alphabet, should be given pride of place in any primary education.
		The novelties he has added on to "Hodiya" are - (a) Rearranging the Sinhala alphabet according to their shape/form (morphic presentation).
		Akuru Sehella is a versified presentation of the Sinhala alphabet in all its variances.
	dailynews.lk /2002/03/02/fea01.html (1518 words)

	Sinhala Language
		This uniqueness of Sinhala is due to its exposure to other language families of the region such as Dravidian and Malayo-Polynesian.
		In literary Sinhala the subject agrees with the verb in gender number and case, whereas in spoken Sinhala there is no agreement between the subject and the verb.
		The Sinhala script is phonetic, in other words, everything that is written down is pronounced the way it is written.
	members.tripod.com /~hettiarachchi/sinhala2.html (588 words)

	Sinhala alphabet, pronunciation and language
		The Sinhala alphabet, a descendent of the Brahmi script, started to appear in inscriptions during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.
		Prenasalized consonants, such as mb, nd, ṇd and ng, are formed by special conjunct symbols that combine the stop and the homorganic nasal.
		Sinhala or Sinhalese, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sri Lanka by about 12 million people.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/sinhala.htm (189 words)

	Microimage to revolutionize mobile communications with Sinhala and Tamil SMS
		No company has so far developed a successful Sinhala and Tamil SMS service, due to the difficulty of incorporating all of the intricacies of the two languages, which are more complex than English and contain far more letters and many times the number of words.
		The Sinhala and Tamil SMS can be used in any brand of mobile phone such as Nokia, Samsung, Sony-Ericsson, etc. Handsets need to be Java-enabled to transmit a Sinhala or Tamil SMS, but any MMS-enabled mobile phone can receive and display such a message, whether or not it is Java-enabled.
		A Sinhala or Tamil SMS could also be sent from a mobile phone to a computer as an email message which could be displayed using any email software or email services such as hotmail, yahoo, etc, without any additional downloads.
	www.microimage.com /press/mobile.htm (822 words)

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		Therefore, it is of paramount importance for a Sinhala and Tamil character allocation table to be introduced.
		For a Sinhala allocation table to be computerised, it is not necessary to alter or simplify Sinhala and in fact other characters could be amalgamated.
		For ICT in Sinhala and Tamil to flourish in Sri Lanka, a character allocation table should be based on as a front end processor of a computer.
	www.dailymirror.lk /2003/06/17/feat/2.html (1997 words)

	Language Technology Research Centre - University of Colombo - School of Computing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		CANLIT arrived at defining the Sinhala alphabet as having 16 vowels, 2 semi consonants and 41 consonants as shown in the CINTEC publication of 1990 [2].
		In developing the Sinhala Character set for use in IT, the work already done in Thailand for the Thai language, which is somewhat similar to Sinhala, was studied with Dr. Thaweesak Koanantakool of Tammasat University, Bangkok.
		Having agreed that a large number of Sinhala typists were using the government approved Wijesekara Keyboard, CINTEC first developed and obtained government approval for the “Extended Wijesekera Keyboard for Electronic Typewriters”, the intention being the introduction of Daisywheel and Golf-ball electronic typewriters then used as an interface for microcomputer output.
	www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk /ltrl/history.html (1316 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		Sinhala could be viewed and edited in two scripts (Latin and Sinhala) that no other language can claim.
		In the US, the immigrant parents are happy that their children finally have a way to write and learn Sinhala in a direct and fun way.
		In Sri Lanka, there is a growing number of Sinhalese that appreciate the availability of a Sinhala alphabet that could be used inside regular applications such as Excel and other business applications.
	www.changemakers.net /ruacm/displayse.cfm?ID=245 (1102 words)

	Fonts.lk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		CANLIT arrived at defining the Sinhala alphabet as having 16 vowels, 2 semi
		Unicode for Sinhala approved later in 1998 and all such cases are discussed later on in this paper.
		large number of Sinhala typists were using the government approved Wijesekera Keyboard, CINTEC first developed and obtained government approval for the “Extended Wijesekera Keyboard for Electronic Typewriters”, the intention being the introduction of Daisywheel and Golf-ball electronic typewriters then used as an interface for microcomputer output.
	www.fonts.lk /history.html (579 words)

	OHCHR: Sinhala () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		Sinhala or Sinhalese is the official language of Sri Lanka.
		It is spoken by about 14 million people, living mainly in the southern and western two-thirds of the island.
		Sinhala descended from Sanskrit, and was brought to Sri Lanka by settlers from northern India in the 5th century B.C. The alphabet, however, with its generally rounded letters, more closely resembles those of the Dravidian languages of southern India.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/snh.htm (95 words)

	Buddhivihara - Kids Corner
		It is a privilege to go to Sinhala classes at the temple.
		I learn the Sinhala alphabet, words, and sentences.
		In my opinion Sinhala is quite useful, as I would not feel like a stranger when I am in Sri Lanka.
	buddhivihara.org /kidscorner.htm (2632 words)

	Thibus Software System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		Use Sinhala and Tamil in your Wordprocessor, Spread Sheet, Database and DTP application,Graphic application, CAD, and Web application or in your own application developed by you.
		Thibus fonts are Bilingual, which accommodates Sinhala and English in every Sinhala font and Tamil and English in every Tamil font.
		The feature of Phonetical Baisis Keyboard layout is very useful for experienced English keyboard users, under which Sinhala and Tamil characters are located according to the phonetic of each character.
	www.scienceland.lk /Thibus.htm (753 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		The code set is fully capable of generating contemporary and historical Sinhala writings and can be modified with future developments of the language.
		Sinhala can be used with MS office XP and MS office 2003.
		The cause for not motivating international companies to develop Sinhala character code is the small market for Sinhala compared with other languages such as Chinese and Japanese.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2005/02/20/bus15.html (604 words)

	Sinhala Script
		There are 58 letters in the Sinhala - alphabet sixteen vowels and forty-two consonants.
		Spoken Sinhala makes use of only forty sounds fourteen vowels and twenty six consonants.
		Included here are what my wife considers to be the most common letters used in spoken Sinhala.
	www.speaksinhala.com /miscellaneous/sinhalascript.htm (214 words)

	Sri Lanka - Education
		Because they were educated in English, the graduates of the European-style schools, a large portion of them Christians from the low country in the southwest, went on to fill lower and middle-level positions in the colonial administration.
		Although institutions that used Tamil and Sinhala continued to function as elementary schools, secondary institutions that taught exclusively in English attracted an elite male clientele destined for administrative positions.
		By the mid-1960s, the examinations were conducted in Sinhala and Tamil, opening the universities to a larger body of applicants, many of whom were trained in the vernacular languages in state-run secondary schools.
	countrystudies.us /sri-lanka/46.htm (2180 words)

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