# Sinhala script

The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāwa), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. The Sinhalese Akṣara Mālāva, one of the Brahmic scripts, is a descendant of the Ancient Indian Brahmi script. It is also related to the Grantha script.

## History

The Sinhala script is a Brahmi derivate and was thought to have been imported from Northern India around the 3rd century BCE. It developed in a complex manner, partly independently but also strongly influenced by South Indian scripts at various stages, manifestly influenced by the early Grantha script. Pottery from the 6th century BCE has been found in Anuradhapura with lithic Brahmi inscriptions written in Prakrit or Sinhala Prakrit. It has caused debate as to whether Ceylonese Brahmi influenced Brahmi in the Indian mainland.
Medieval Sinhalese, which emerged around 750 AD, is marked by very strong influence from the Grantha script. Subsequently, Medieval (and modern) Sinhalese resemble the South Indian scripts. By the 9th century CE, literature written in the Sinhala script had emerged and the script began to be used in other contexts. For instance, the Buddhist literature of the Theravada-Buddhists of Sri Lanka, written in Pali, used Sinhala script.
Modern Sinhalese emerged in the 13th century and is marked by the composition of the grammar book Sidat Sangara. In 1736, the Dutch were the first to print with Sinhala type on the island. The resulting type followed the features of the native Sinhala script used on palm leaves. The type created by the Dutch was monolinear and geometric in fashion, with no separation between words in early documents. During the second half of the 19th century, during the colonial period, a new style of Sinhala letterforms emerged in opposition to the monolinear and geometric form that used high contrast and had varied thicknesses. This high contrast type gradually replaced the monolinear type as the preferred style and continues to be used in the present day. The high contrast style is still preferred for text typesetting in printed newspapers, books, and magazines in Sri Lanka.
Today, the alphabet is used by over 16 million people to write Sinhala in very diverse contexts, such as newspapers, TV commercials, government announcements, graffiti, and schoolbooks.
Sinhala is the main language written in this script, but rare instances of its use for writing Sri Lanka Malay have been recorded.

## Structure

Sinhala script is an abugida written from left to right. It uses consonants as the basic unit for word construction as each consonant has an inherent vowel (/a/), which can be changed with a different vowel stroke. To represent different sounds it is necessary to add vowel strokes, or diacritics called පිලි (Pili), that can be used before, after, above, or below the base-consonant. Most of the Sinhala letters are curlicues; straight lines are almost completely absent from the alphabet, and it does not have joining characters. This is because Sinhala used to be written on dried palm leaves, which would split along the veins on writing straight lines. This was undesirable, and therefore, the round shapes were preferred. Upper and lower cases do not exist in Sinhala.
Sinhala letters are ordered into two sets. The core set of letters forms the pure Sinhala (Sinhala: ශුද්ධ සිංහල, romanized: śuddha siṃhala alphabet, which is a subset of the mixed Sinhala Sinhala: මිශ්‍ර සිංහල, romanized: miśra siṃhala alphabet . The definition of the two sets is thus a historic one. The śuddha alphabet, also called the Eḷu alphabet (Sinhala: එළු හෝඩිය, romanized: Eḷu hōdiya), contains everything necessary to write Eḷu, or classical Sinhala, as described in the classical grammar Sidatsan̆garā (1300 AD). The śuddha alphabet is also a good representation of the phoneme inventory of present-day colloquial Sinhala; all native sounds of the Modern Sinhala can be represented by śuddha. The śuddha also includes the letters and diacritics for the retroflex consonants ⟨ḷ⟩ and ⟨ṇ⟩, which are not phonemic in modern Sinhala but are needed for the representation of Eḷu. However, words which historically contained these two phonemes are still often written with these letters, despite changes in pronunciation.
The miśra siṃhala alphabet includes letters for Middle Indic aspirate, retroflex and sibilant consonants which are not found in modern Sinhala, but are used in the transcription of are used for transcribing loanwords from Sanskrit (tatsama), Pali or English. Although modern Sinhala sounds are not aspirated, aspiration is marked in the sound where it was historically present, to highlight the differences in modern spelling. The use of miśra siṃhala letters is mainly a question of prestige. From a purely phonemic point of view, their sounds can all be represented by śuddha letters.
Although most phonemes of Sinhala can be represented by a śuddha letter or by a miśra letter, normally only one of them is considered correct. Additionally, the śuddha set itself contains both ⟨ḷ⟩ and ⟨l⟩, as well as ⟨ṇ⟩ and ⟨n⟩, and neither pair is distinctive in Modern sinhala. This one-to-many mapping of phonemes onto graphemes is a frequent source of misspellings.
While a phoneme can be represented by more than one grapheme, each grapheme can be pronounced in only one way, with the exceptions of the inherent vowel sound, which can be either [a] (stressed) or [ə] (unstressed), and "ව" where the consonant is either [v] or [w] depending on the word. This means that the actual pronunciation of a word is almost always clear from its spelling. Stress is almost always predictable; only words with [v] or [w] (which are both allophones of "ව"), and a very few other words need to be learnt individually.

### Consonants

The śuddha alphabet includes eight plosives, two fricatives, two affricates, two nasals, two liquids and two glides. As in other Brahmic scripts, each consonant carries an inherent vowel, which in Sinhala is /a/.
Śuddha and miśra consonants :
| | Unvoiced | Unvoiced | Voiced | Voiced | Nasal | Approximant | Sibilant | Fricative | Other |
| | Inaspirate | Aspirated | Inaspirate | Aspirate | Nasal | Approximant | Sibilant | Fricative | Other |
| velar | කkaIPA: [ka]śuddha | ඛkhaIPA: [ka]miśra | ගgaIPA: [ga]śuddha | ඝghaIPA: [ga]miśra | ඞṅaIPA: [ŋa]miśra | | | හhaIPA: [ɦa]śuddha | |
| palatal | චcaIPA: [tʃa]śuddha | ඡchaIPA: [tʃa]miśra | ජjaIPA: [dʒa]śuddha | ඣjhaIPA: [dʒa]miśra | ඤñIPA: [ɲa]miśra | යyaIPA: [ja]śuddha | ශśaIPA: [ʃa]miśra | | ඥjñaIPA: [d͡ʒɲa]miśra |
| retroflex | ටṭaIPA: [ʈa]śuddha | ඨṭhaIPA: [ʈa]miśra | ඩḍaIPA: [ɖa]śuddha | ඪḍhaIPA: [ɖa]miśra | ණṇaIPA: [ɳa]śuddha | රraIPA: [ra]śuddha | ෂṣaIPA: [ʃa]miśra | | ළḷaIPA: [ɭa]śuddha |
| dental | තtaIPA: [ta]śuddha | ථthaIPA: [ta]miśra | දdaIPA: [da]śuddha | ධdhaIPA: [da]miśra | නnaIPA: [na]śuddha | ලlaIPA: [la]śuddha | සsaIPA: [sa]śuddha | | |
| labial | පpaIPA: [pa]śuddha | ඵphaIPA: [pa]miśra | බbaIPA: [ba]śuddha | භbhaIPA: [ba]miśra | මmaIPA: [ma]śuddha | වva/waIPA: [ʋa]śuddha | | ෆfaIPA: [f]miśra | |
* ↑ Letters in black belong to the śuddha set, while letters in pink belong to the miśra set.
* ↑ The voiceless affricate (ච [t͡ʃa]) is not included in the śuddha set by purists since it does not occur in the main text of the Sidatsan̆garā. The Sidatsan̆garā does use it in examples though, so this sound did exist in Eḷu. In any case, it is needed for the representation of modern Sinhala.
* 1 2 The retroflex sounds /ɭ/ and /ɳ/, are no longer phonemic in modern Sinhala, but the letters ⟨ළ⟩ and ⟨ණ⟩ are still included in the śuddha set. Retroflex pronunciations can be found in historic speech.

#### Prenasalization

The prenasalized consonants resemble their plain counterparts. ⟨ඹ⟩, m̆ba is made up of the left half of ⟨ම⟩ ma and the right half of ⟨බ⟩ ba, while the other three are just like the grapheme for the plosive with a little stroke added. Vowel diacritics attach to a prenasalised consonant in the same way as they would to the corresponding plain plosives.
Prenasalized consonants :
| ඟn̆gaIPA: [ᵑɡa]śuddha | ඦn̆jaIPA: [ⁿd͡ʒa]miśra | ඬn̆ḍaIPA: [ᶯɖa]śuddha | ඳn̆daIPA: [ⁿd̪a]śuddha | ඹm̆baIPA: [ᵐba]śuddha |

#### Consonant conjuncts

Certain combinations of letters are written with ligatures. Some graphical conventions include a ⟨ර⟩ ra following a consonant represented by and inverted arch ⟨◌්‍ර⟩ (rakāransaya), a ⟨ර⟩ r preceding a consonant by a loop above ⟨ර්‍◌⟩ (rēpaya), and a ⟨ය⟩, ya following a consonant as a half of a ya ⟨්‍ය⟩ on the right (yansaya. Some very frequent combinations can be written in one stroke, like ⟨ද්‍ධ⟩, ddha, ⟨ක්‍ව⟩, kwa or ⟨ක්‍ෂ⟩, kś.
Touching letters were used in ancient scriptures but are not used in modern Sinhala. Vowels may be attached to any of the ligatures formed, attaching to the rightmost part of the glyph except for vowels that use the kombuva, where the kombuva is written before the ligature or cluster and the remainder of the vowel, if any, is attached to the rightmost part.
Examples of combined letters :
| ක්යක්‍යIPA: /kja/yansaya | ක්යොක‍්‍යොIPA: /kjo/yansaya | ග්යග්‍යIPA: /ɡja/yansaya | ක්රක්‍රIPA: /kra/rakāransaya | ග්රග්‍රIPA: /ɡra/rakāransaya | ක්ය්රක්‍ය්‍රIPA: /kjra/yansaya + rakāransaya |
| ග්ය්රග්‍ය්‍රIPA: /ɡjra/yansaya + rakāransaya | ර්කර්‍කIPA: /rka/rēpaya | ර්ගර්‍ගIPA: /rɡa/rēpaya | ර්ක්යර්‍ක්‍යIPA: /rkja/rēpaya + yansaya | ර්ග්යර්‍ග්‍යIPA: /rɡja/rēpaya + yansaya |
| ක්වක්‍වIPA: /kwa/conjunct | ක්ෂක්‍ෂIPA: /kʃa/conjunct | ග්ධග්‍ධIPA: /ɡdᵊa/conjunct | ට්ඨට්‍ඨIPA: /ʈʈᵊa/conjunct | ත්ථත්‍ථIPA: /t̪t̪ᵊa/conjunct | ත්වත්‍වIPA: /t̪wa/conjunct |
| ද්ධද්‍ධIPA: /d̪d̪ᵊa/conjunct | ද්වද්‍වIPA: /d̪wa/conjunct | න්දන්‍දIPA: /nd̪a/conjunct | න්ධන්‍ධIPA: /nd̪ᵊa/conjunct | ම්මම‍්මIPA: /mma/touching |

## Vowels and diacritics

Each vowel has two forms, an independent and a diacritic or vowel stroke (Sinhala: පිලි, romanized: pili). The independent form is used when a vowel occurs at the beginning of a word. The diacritic is used when a vowel follows a consonant.
While most diacritics are regular, ⟨ ු⟩, u and ⟨ ූ⟩ ū take on a different shape when attached to a ⟨ක⟩, ka, ⟨ග⟩, ga, ⟨ඟ⟩, n̆ga, ⟨ත⟩, ta, ⟨භ⟩, bha, or ⟨ශ⟩, śa. E.g.: ⟨කු⟩, ku, ⟨කූ⟩, kū.
The inherent vowel of a letter can be removed by a hal kirīma (◌්), which has two shapes depending on which consonant it attaches to.
Combinations of ර(r) or ළ(ḷ) with ⟨u⟩ have idiosyncratic shapes, viz රු (ru), රූ (rū), ළු (ḷu) and ළූ (ḷū). The diacritic used for රු (ru) and රූ (rū) is what is normally used for the ⟨æ⟩, and therefore there are idiosyncratic forms for ræ and rǣ, viz රැ and රෑ.

### Śuddha vowels

There are six long and six short śuddha vowels.
Śuddha short vowels, hal kirīma, and examples with ⟨ක⟩, ka and ⟨බ⟩, ba. :
| අ◌aIPA: [a], [ə]. | ඇැæIPA: [æ] | ඉිiIPA: [i] | උුuIPA: [u] | එෙeIPA: [e] | ඔොoIPA: [o] | ◌◌් hal kirīma |
| කkaIPA: [ka], [kə] | කැkæIPA: [kæ] | කිkiIPA: [ki] | කුkuIPA: [ku] | කෙkeIPA: [ke] | කොkoIPA: [ko] | ක්kIPA: [k] |
| බbaIPA: [ba], [bə] | බැbæIPA: [bæ] | බිbiIPA: [bi] | බුbuIPA: [bu] | බෙbeIPA: [be] | බොboIPA: [bo] | බ්bIPA: [b] |
* ↑ Letters in black belong to the śuddha set, while letters in pink belong to the miśra set.
* ↑ This letter is not used anywhere, neither in modern nor ancient Sinhala. Its usefulness is unclear, but it forms part of the standard alphabet.
* ↑ Since every unmarked consonant carries an inherent a vowel, there is no need for a diacritic form of ⟨අ⟩
* ↑ The 'hal kirīma has no independent form as it is always attached to a consonant.
Śuddha long vowels and examples with ⟨ක⟩, ka and ⟨බ⟩, ba. :
| ආාāIPA: [aː] | ඈෑǣIPA: [æː] | ඊීīIPA: [iː] | ඌූūIPA: [uː] | ඒේēIPA: [eː] | ඕෝōIPA: [oː] |
| කාkāIPA: [kaː] | කෑkǣIPA: [kæː] | කීkīIPA: [kiː] | කූkūIPA: [kuː] | කේkēIPA: [keː] | කෝkōIPA: [koː] |
| බාbāIPA: [baː] | බෑbǣIPA: [bæː] | බීbīIPA: [biː] | බූbūIPA: [buː] | බේbēIPA: [beː] | බෝbōIPA: [boː] |

### Miśra vowels and vocalics

There are six additional vowel and syllabic consonants in the miśra alphabet. The two diphthongs are quite common, while the vocalic ṛ is much rarer, and ḷ is all but obsolete. The latter two are almost exclusively found in loanwords from Sanskrit.
The miśra ⟨ṛ⟩ can also be written with śuddha ⟨r⟩+⟨u⟩ or ⟨u⟩+⟨r⟩, which corresponds to the actual pronunciation. The miśra syllabic ḷ can be replaced by śuddha ⟨l⟩+⟨i⟩. Miśra ⟨au⟩ is rendered as śuddha ⟨awu⟩, miśra ⟨ai⟩ as śuddha ⟨ayi⟩.
* ↑ Mainly used in conjunction with another diacritic, ⟨ෙ⟩
* ↑ Not in contemporary use.

### Other diacritics

The anusvara (often called binduva 'zero') is represented by one small circle ⟨◌ං⟩, and the visarga (technically part of the miśra alphabet) by two ⟨◌ඃ⟩.

## Letter names

The Sinhala śuddha graphemes are named in a uniform way adding -yanna to the sound produced by the letter, including vocalic diacritics. The name for the letter අ is thus ayanna, for the letter ආ āyanna, for the letter ක kayanna, for the letter කා kāyanna, for the letter කෙ keyanna and so forth. For letters with hal kirīma, an epenthetic a is added for easier pronunciation: the name for the letter ක් is akyanna. Another naming convention is to use al- before a letter with suppressed vowel, thus alkayanna.
Since the extra miśra letters are phonetically not distinguishable from the śuddha letters, proceeding in the same way would lead to confusion. Names of miśra letters are normally made up of the names of two śuddha letters pronounced as one word. The first one indicates the sound, the second one the shape. For example, the aspirated ඛ (kh) is called bayanu kayanna. kayanna indicates the sound, while bayanu indicates the shape: ඛ (kh) is similar in shape to බ (b) (bayunu = like bayanna). Another method is to qualify the miśra aspirates by mahāprāna (ඛ: mahāprāna kayanna) and the miśra retroflexes by mūrdhaja (ළ: mūrdhaja layanna).

## Numerals

Sinhala had its numerals (Sinhala illakkam), which were used from prior to the fall of Kandyan Kingdom in 1815. They can be seen primarily in Royal documents and artefacts. Sinhala Illakkam did not have a zero, but did have signs for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 1000.
This system has been replaced by the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.
Sinhala illakkam :
| 𑇡1 | 𑇢2 | 𑇣3 | 𑇤4 | 𑇥5 | 𑇦6 | 𑇧7 | 𑇨8 | 𑇩9 | 𑇪10 |
| 𑇫20 | 𑇬30 | 𑇭40 | 𑇮50 | 𑇯60 | 𑇰70 | 𑇱80 | 𑇲90 | 𑇳100 | 𑇴1000 |

### Astrological numbers

Prior to the fall of Kandyan Kingdom all calculations were carried out using Sinhala lith illakkam. After that event, Sinhala lith illakkam became known as or Sinhala astrological number and were primarily used for writing horoscopes. The tradition of writing degrees and minutes of zodiac signs in lith numbers continued into the 20th century. Unlike the Sinhala illakkam, Sinhala lith illakkam included a 0.
Sinhala lith illakkam :
| ෦0 | ෧1 | ෨2 | ෩3 | ෪4 | ෫5 | ෬6 | ෭7 | ෮8 | ෯9 |
* ෴kunddaliya
Neither the Sinhala numerals nor the Sinhala punctuation mark kunddaliya is in general use today, but some use it in social media, Internet messaging and blogs. The kunddaliya was formerly used as a full stop.

## Transliteration

Sinhala transliteration (Sinhala: රෝම අකුරින් ලිවීම rōma akurin liwīma, literally "Roman letter writing") can be done in analogy to Devanāgarī transliteration.
Layman's transliterations in Sri Lanka normally follow neither of these. Vowels are transliterated according to English spelling equivalences, which can yield a variety of spellings for a number of phonemes. /iː/ for instance can be ⟨ee⟩, ⟨e⟩, ⟨ea⟩, ⟨i⟩, etc. A transliteration pattern peculiar to Sinhala, and facilitated by the absence of phonemic aspirates, is the use of ⟨th⟩ for the voiceless dental plosive, and the use of ⟨t⟩ for the voiceless retroflex plosive. This is presumably because the retroflex plosive /ʈ/ is perceived the same as the English alveolar plosive /t/, and the Sinhala dental plosive /t̪/ is equated with the English voiceless dental fricative /θ/. Dental and retroflex voiced plosives are always rendered as ⟨d⟩, though, presumably because ⟨dh⟩ is not found as a representation of /ð/ in English orthography.

## Use for the Pali language

Many of the oldest Pali manuscript are written in the Sinhala script. The first instance of the Pali Tripitaka being written down sometime from 29 to 17 BCE occurred in Sri Lanka. At the time, these would have been written in what was still Brahmi script but adapted to palm leaves. Successive copies of Buddhist texts follow the evolution of that version of Brahmi on the island, leading to modern Sinhala.
Many of the miśra consonants are used to represent Pali phonemes that have no Sinhala counterpart, particularly the aspirated consonants. On the other hand, not all śuddha set consonants are used; the prenasalised consonants have no counterpart in Pali phonology, and so are not used. Consonant sequences may be combined in ligatures the same way as in Sinhala.
The vowels are a subset of those for writing Sinhala, comprising long and short a, i, and u, short e and short o.
The niggahīta is represented with the sign ං.
As an example, below is the first verse from the Pali Dhammapada in Sinhala script, along with the corresponding romanization.
   මනොපුබ්‌බඞ්‌ගමා
   Manopubbaṅgamā
   ධම්‌මා,
   dhammā,
   මනොසෙට්‌ඨා
   manoseṭṭhā
   මනොමයා;
   manomayā;
   මනොපුබ්‌බඞ්‌ගමා ධම්‌මා, මනොසෙට්‌ඨා මනොමයා;
   Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā, manoseṭṭhā manomayā;
   මනසා
   manasā
   චෙ
   ce
   පදුට්‌ඨෙන,
   paduṭṭhena
   භාසති
   bhāsati
   වා
   vā
   කරොති
   karoti
   වා;
   vā;
   මනසා චෙ පදුට්‌ඨෙන, භාසති වා කරොති වා;
   manasā ce paduṭṭhena bhāsati vā karoti vā;
   තතො
   tato
   නං
   naṁ
   දුක්‌ඛමන්‌වෙති,
   dukkhamanveti
   චක්‌කංව
   cakkaṁva
   වහතො
   vahato
   පදං.
   padaṁ.
   තතො නං දුක්‌ඛමන්‌වෙති, චක්‌කංව වහතො පදං.
   tato naṁ dukkhamanveti cakkaṁva vahato padaṁ.

## Relation to other scripts
### Similarities

Sinhala is one of the Brahmic scripts, and thus shares many similarities with other members of the family, such as Grantha, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil script and Devanāgarī. As a general example, /a/ is the inherent vowel in all these scripts (except Devanagari, where it is /ə/). Other similarities include the diacritic for ⟨ai⟩, which resembles a doubled ⟨e⟩ in all scripts and the diacritic for ⟨au⟩ which is composed of preceding ⟨e⟩ and following ⟨ḷ⟩.
Likewise, the combination of the diacritics for ⟨e⟩ and ⟨ā⟩ yields ⟨o⟩ in all these scripts.
Comparison of independent and diacritic vowels :
| Script | e | ai | au | ā | o |
| Sinhala | එෙ | ඓෛ | ඖෞ | ආා | ඔො |
| Tamil Grantha | 𑌏𑍇 | 𑌐𑍈 | 𑌔𑍌 | 𑌆𑌾 | 𑌓𑍋 |
| Malayalam | എെ | ഐൈ | ഔൗ | ആാ | ഒൊ |
| Tamil | எ◌ெ | ஐ◌ை◌ | ஔ◌ௌ | ஆ◌ா | ஒொ |
| Bengali | এে | ঐৈ | ঔৌ | আা | ওো |
| Odia | ଏ◌େ | ଐୈ | ଔ◌ୌ | ଆ◌ା | ଓୋ |
| Dēvanāgarī | ए◌े | ऐ◌ै | औ◌ौ | आ◌ा | ओ◌ो |

### Differences

Sinhala alphabet differs from other Indo-Aryan alphabets in that it contains a pair of vowel sounds (U+0DD0 and U+0DD1 in the proposed Unicode Standard) that are unique to it. These are the two vowel sounds that are similar to the two vowel sounds that occur at the beginning of the English words at (ඇ) and ant (ඈ).

## Computer encoding

Generally speaking, Sinhala support is less developed than support for Devanāgarī, for instance. A recurring problem is the rendering of diacritics which precede the consonant and diacritic signs which come in different shapes, like the one for ⟨u⟩.
Sinhala support did not come built in with Microsoft Windows XP, unlike Tamil and Hindi, but was supported by third-party means such as Keyman by SIL International. Thereafter, all versions of Windows Vista and above, including Windows 10 come with Sinhala support by default, and do not require external fonts to be installed to read Sinhala script. Nirmala UI is the default Sinhala font in Windows 10. The latest versions of Windows 10 have added support for Sinhala Archaic Numbers that were not supported by default in previous versions.
For macOS, Apple Inc. has provided Sinhala font support for versions of macOS that are Catalina and above through Unicode integration. Keyboard support is available by third-party means such as Helakuru and Keyman. In Mac OS X, Sinhala font and keyboard support were provided by Nickshanks and Xenotypetech.
For Linux, the IBus, and SCIM input methods allow the use Sinhala script in applications with support for a number of key maps and techniques such as traditional, phonetic and assisted techniques. In addition, newer versions of the Android mobile operating system also support both rendering and input of Sinhala script by default and applications like Helakuru serve as dedicated keyboard integrators.

### Unicode

Sinhala script was added to the Unicode Standard in September 1999 with the release of version 3.0. This character allocation has been adopted in Sri Lanka as the Standard SLS1134.
The main Unicode block for Sinhala is U+0D80–U+0DFF. Another block, Sinhala Archaic Numbers, was added to Unicode in version 7.0.0 in June 2014. Its range is U+111E0–U+111FF.
Sinhala Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+0D8x | | ඁ | ං | ඃ | | අ | ආ | ඇ | ඈ | ඉ | ඊ | උ | ඌ | ඍ | ඎ | ඏ |
| U+0D9x | ඐ | එ | ඒ | ඓ | ඔ | ඕ | ඖ | | | | ක | ඛ | ග | ඝ | ඞ | ඟ |
| U+0DAx | ච | ඡ | ජ | ඣ | ඤ | ඥ | ඦ | ට | ඨ | ඩ | ඪ | ණ | ඬ | ත | ථ | ද |
| U+0DBx | ධ | න | | ඳ | ප | ඵ | බ | භ | ම | ඹ | ය | ර | | ල | | |
| U+0DCx | ව | ශ | ෂ | ස | හ | ළ | ෆ | | | | ් | | | | | ා |
| U+0DDx | ැ | ෑ | ි | ී | ු | | ූ | | ෘ | ෙ | ේ | ෛ | ො | ෝ | ෞ | ෟ |
| U+0DEx | | | | | | | ෦ | ෧ | ෨ | ෩ | ෪ | ෫ | ෬ | ෭ | ෮ | ෯ |
| U+0DFx | | | ෲ | ෳ | ෴ | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |||||||||||||||||
Sinhala Archaic Numbers Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+111Ex | | 𑇡 | 𑇢 | 𑇣 | 𑇤 | 𑇥 | 𑇦 | 𑇧 | 𑇨 | 𑇩 | 𑇪 | 𑇫 | 𑇬 | 𑇭 | 𑇮 | 𑇯 |
| U+111Fx | 𑇰 | 𑇱 | 𑇲 | 𑇳 | 𑇴 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |||||||||||||||||