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Hello everyone, 😀
 
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, you will learn how to write the different letters of the Sinhala alphabet, how to pronounce these letters whether it is through the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), or through a video with the pronunciation of the letters by a native speaker. You will also find at the end of this lesson a virtual keyboard to be able to type each special character of this language.
 
Happy learning!
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*Other lessons: After you've gained a solid understanding of this material, these related subjects might pique your interest: [[Language/Sinhala/Vocabulary/Classroom|Classroom]], [[Language/Sinhala/Vocabulary/Drinks|Drinks]].
 
==Sinhala Alphabet and IPA Pronunciation==
===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable"
!Letter
!Letter
|ක
|ක
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|[ᵐba]
|[ᵐba]
|}
|}
{|
===Vowels===
|+Vowels
{| class="wikitable"
 
!Letter
!Letter
|අ
|අ
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|ඕ
|ඕ
|-
|-
!IPA of letter
!Diacritic
|[a]
|◌
|[æ]
|[i]
|[u]
|[e]
|[o]
|[aː]
|[æː]
|[iː]
|[uː]
|[eː]
|[oː]
|-
!Diacretic
|
|ැ
|ැ
|ි
|ි
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|ේ
|ේ
|ෝ
|ෝ
|-
!IPA of letter
|[a]
| rowspan="2" |[æ]
| rowspan="2" |[i]
| rowspan="2" |[u]
| rowspan="2" |[e]
| rowspan="2" |[o]
| rowspan="2" |[aː]
| rowspan="2" |[æː]
| rowspan="2" |[iː]
| rowspan="2" |[uː]
| rowspan="2" |[eː]
| rowspan="2" |[oː]
|-
|-
!IPA of diacritic
!IPA of diacritic
|[a, ə]
|[a, ə]
|[æ]
|}
 
=== Additional Diacritics ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Diacritic
|්
|ං
|-
!Effect
|No vowel
|Adds ṁ after consonant/vowel
|-
!Example
|පාසල්, pāsal
|සිංහල, siṁhala
|}
 
===English Equivalents===
{| class="wikitable"
!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 through
|-
|
ප
|[pa]
|as in pan
|-
|
ඩ
|[ɖa]
|as in dark
|-
|
ද
|[da]
|as in there
|-
|
බ
|[ba]
|as in bark
|-
|
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]
|[i]
|as in kit
|-
|
ඔ
|[o]
|as in top
|-
|
උ
|[u]
|[u]
|as in cut
|-
|
ඇ
|[æ]
|as in apple
|-
|
ෙ
|[e]
|[e]
|as in elephant
|-
|
ි
|[i]
|as in ink
|-
|
ො
|[o]
|[o]
|as in opera
|-
|
ු
|[u]
|as in but
|-
|
ැ
|[æ]
|as in late
|-
|
ආ
|[aː]
|[aː]
|[æː]
|as in rate
|-
|
ඒ
|[eː]
|as in meat
|-
|
ඊ
|[iː]
|[iː]
|as in sweat
|-
|
ඕ
|[oː]
|as in pool
|-
|
ඌ
|[uː]
|[uː]
|as in root
|-
|
ඈ
|[æː]
|as in bait
|-
|
ා
|[aː]
|as in bait
|-
|
ේ
|[eː]
|[eː]
|as in late
|-
|
ී
|[iː]
|as in sweat
|-
|
ෝ
|[oː]
|[oː]
|as in toy
|-
|
ූ
|[uː]
|as in hut
|-
|
ෑ
|[æː]
|as in mate
|}
|}
==Videos==
===Sinhala Alphabet Pronunciation by a Native Speaker===
<youtube>FUe2-bSF5bc</youtube>
=== The Sound of the Sinhala language===
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgOVg0hsGVM</youtube>
==Sinhala Online Virtual Keyboard==
__NOCACHE__<include iframe="" src="https://polyglotclub.com/keyboard.php?souscat_url=sinhala" height="1200px" frameborder="0" scrolling="yes" />
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Sinhala Alphabet & Pronunciation
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Hello everyone, 😀

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, you will learn how to write the different letters of the Sinhala alphabet, how to pronounce these letters whether it is through the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), or through a video with the pronunciation of the letters by a native speaker. You will also find at the end of this lesson a virtual keyboard to be able to type each special character of this language.

Happy learning!

  • Other lessons: After you've gained a solid understanding of this material, these related subjects might pique your interest: Classroom, Drinks.

Sinhala Alphabet and IPA Pronunciation[edit | edit source]

Consonants[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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

Additional Diacritics[edit | edit source]

Diacritic ් ං
Effect No vowel Adds ṁ after consonant/vowel
Example පාසල්, pāsal සිංහල, siṁhala

English Equivalents[edit | edit source]

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 through

ප

[pa] as in pan

ඩ

[ɖa] as in dark

ද

[da] as in there

බ

[ba] as in bark

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 apple

ෙ

[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

Videos[edit | edit source]

Sinhala Alphabet Pronunciation by a Native Speaker[edit | edit source]

The Sound of the Sinhala language[edit | edit source]

Sinhala Online Virtual Keyboard[edit | edit source]

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