Language/Sinhala/Pronunciation/Alphabet-and-Pronunciation

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Sinhala (සිංහල, siṁhala), also known as Sinhalese, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka.

In today's lesson, we will learn how to write and pronounce the different Sinhala letters.

Good learning!

Here are the alphabet letters and their pronunciation:

Consonants

Letter	ක	ග	ට	ඩ	ත	ද	ප	බ	ස	හ	ච	ජ	ම	න	ල	ර	ව	ය	ණ	ළ	ඟ	ඬ	ඳ	ඹ
IPA of name	[ka]	[ɡa]	[ʈa]	[ɖa]	[t̪a]	[d̪a]	[pa]	[ba]	[sa]	[ha]	[t͡ʃa]	[d͡ʒa]	[ma]	[na]	[la]	[ra]	[ʋa]	[ja]	[ɳa]	[ɭa]	[ⁿɡa]	[ⁿɖa]	[ⁿd̪a]	[ᵐba]

Vowels

Letter	අ	ඇ	ඉ	උ	එ	ඔ	ආ	ඈ	ඊ	ඌ	ඒ	ඕ
Diacretic	◌	ැ	ි	ු	ෙ	ො	ා	ෑ	ී	ූ	ේ	ෝ
IPA of letter	[a]	[æ]	[i]	[u]	[e]	[o]	[aː]	[æː]	[iː]	[uː]	[eː]	[oː]
IPA of diacritic	[a, ə]

English sounds

Sinhala Alphabet	English Sound	Pronunciation Example
ක	[ka]	as in card
ග	[ga]	as in garage
ට	[ʈa]	as in tale
ත	[ta]	as in task
ප	[pa]	as in pan
ඩ	[ɖa]	as in sail
ද	[da]	as in charm
බ	[ba]	as in mark
ස	[sa]	as in last
(ච)	([t͡ʃa])	as in vast
ම	[ma]	as in narrow
ල	[la]	as in that
ව	[ʋa]	as in dark
ණ	[na]	as in basket
හ	[ha]	as in hard
ජ	[d͡ʒa]	as in Japan
න	[na]	as in narrow
ර	[ra]	as in rat
ය	[ja]	as in yard
ළ	[la]	as in laser
අ	[a]	as in apple
එ	[e]	as in elephant
ඉ	[i]	as in kit
ඔ	[o]	as in top
උ	[u]	as in cut
ඇ	[æ]	as in hay
ෙ	[e]	as in elephant
ි	[i]	as in ink
ො	[o]	as in opera
ු	[u]	as in but
ැ	[æ]	as in late
ආ	[aː]	as in rate
ඒ	[eː]	as in meat
ඊ	[iː]	as in sweat
ඕ	[oː]	as in pool
ඌ	[uː]	as in root
ඈ	[æː]	as in bait
ා	[aː]	as in bait
ේ	[eː]	as in late
ී	[iː]	as in sweat
ෝ	[oː]	as in toy
ූ	[uː]	as in hut
ෑ	[æː]	as in mate