Language/Sinhala
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Facts about Sinhala
Sinhala is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million.
Sinhala is also spoken as the first language by other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, totaling about 4 million people as of 2001.
It is written using the Sinhala script, which is one of the Brahmic scripts; a descendant of the ancient Indian Brahmi script closely related to the Kadamba script.
Sinhala is one of the official and national languages of Sri Lanka. Along with Pali, it played a major role in the development of Theravada Buddhist literature.
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
sin - Autonyms (how to write "Sinhala" in Sinhala):
සිංහල - Other names for "Sinhala":
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhalese, Chingalese - The Sinhala language is spoken in:
Sri Lanka
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala_language
Videos
Learn Sinhala/Sinhalese Greetings and useful words
Greetings in sinhala
Spoken Sinhala (Lesson 01 - Greetings)
The Sound of the Sinhala language
Sinhala Dictionaries
• Kapruka: Sinhala-English & Tamil-English dictionary (+ audio)
• Sinhala online: Sinhala-English vocabulary
• A Sinhalese-English dictionary by Charles Carter (1926)
• Sinhalese-English dictionary by Benjamin Clough (1892)
• Dictionary of the English and Singhalese by Benjamin Clough (1821)
• Athetha wakya deepanya, a collection of Sinhalese proverbs, maxims, fables, by Alexander Mendis Senanayaka (1880)
Sources
https://www.lexilogos.com/english/sinhala_dictionary.htm
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