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.

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