සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව

සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව යනු සිංහල භාෂාව සහ සමහරවිට පාලි හෝ සංස්කෘත භාෂාවන් ලියනු ලබන අක්ෂර මාලාවයි.Daniels (1996), p. 408. සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව පිළිබඳ විද්වත් මත වලට අනුව සිංහල අකාරය ආකාර දෙකකි.එනම් සංවෘත හා විවෘත භේදයයි .

Sinhalese is often considered two alphabets, or an alphabet within an alphabet, due to the presence of two sets of letters. The core set, known as the  (pure Sinhalese,  ශුද්ධ සිංහල) or  ( alphabet  එළු හෝඩිය ), can represent all native phonemes. In order to render Sanskrit and Pali words, an extended set, the  (mixed Sinhalese, මිශ්‍ර සිංහල), is available.Gair and Paolillo 1997: 15f.

Characteristics


The alphabet is written from left to right. The Sinhalese script is an abugida, as each consonant has an inherent vowel (), which can be changed with the different vowel signs or removed (see image on left for examples).

Most of the Sinhalese letters are curlicues; straight lines are almost completely absent from the alphabet. 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.

The core set of letters forms the  alphabet (pure Sinhalese, ශුද්ධ සිංහලimg), which is a subset of the  alphabet (mixed Sinhalese, මිශ්‍ර සිංහල). This "pure" alphabet contains all the graphemes necessary to write Eḷu  (classical Sinhalese) as described in the classical grammar Sidatsan̆garā (1300 AD).Gair and Paolillo 1997. This is the reason why this set is also called Eḷu hōdiya ("Eḷu alphabet" එළු හෝඩියimg).

The definition of the two sets is thus a historic one. Out of pure coincidence, the phoneme inventory of present-day colloquial Sinhala is such that yet again the śuddha alphabet suffices as a good representation of the sounds.

All native phonemes of the Sinhala spoken today can be represented in , while in order to render special Sanskrit and Pali sounds, one can fall back on . This is most notably necessary for the graphemes for the Middle Indic phonemes that the Sinhalese language lost during its history, such as aspirates.

Sinhalese had special symbols to represent numerals, which were in use until the beginning of the [19th] century.
This system is now superseded by Arabic numerals.

Neither the Sinhala numerals nor U+0DF4  ෴  Sinhalese punctuation kunddaliya is in general use today. The kunddaliya was formerly used as a full stop.

History and usage
The Sinhalese script is a Brahmi derivate, and was imported from Northern India, around the 3rd century BCE,Daniels (1996), p. 379. but was influenced at various stages by South Indian scripts, manifestly influenced by the early Grantha script.

There have been found potteries in Anuradhapura from the 6th century BCE, with lithic inscription dating from 2nd century BCE written in Prakrit.

By the 9th century CE, literature written in Sinhalese 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 the Sinhalese alphabet.

Today, the alphabet is used by approximately 16,000,000 people to write the Sinhalese language 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 Sri Lanka Malay are recorded.තහවුරු කර නොමැත]

Relations between orthography and phonology

Most phonemes of the Sinhalese language can be represented by a śuddha letter or by a miśra letter, but normally only one of them is considered correct. This one-to-many mapping of phonemes onto graphemes is a frequent source of misspellings.Matzel (1983) p. 15, 17, 18

While a phoneme can be represented by more than one grapheme, each grapheme can be pronounced in only one way. This means that the actual pronunciation of a word is always clear from its orthographic form.

Śuddha graphemes
The śuddha graphemes are the mainstay of the Sinhalese alphabet and are used on an everyday-basis. Every sequence of sounds of the Sinhalese language of today can be represented by these graphemes. Additionally, the śuddha set comprises graphemes for retroflex  and , which are no longer phonemic in modern Sinhala. These two letters were needed for the representation of Eḷu, but are now obsolete from a purely phonemic view. However, words which historically contain these two phonemes are still often written with the graphemes representing the retroflex sounds.

Consonants

The śuddha alphabet comprises 8 plosives, 2 fricatives, 2 affricates, 2 nasals, 2 liquids and 2 glides. Additionally, there are the two graphemes for the retroflex sounds  and , which are not phonemic in modern Sinhala, but which still form part of the set. These are shaded in the table.

The voiceless affricate (ච ) 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.

The basic shapes of these consonants carry an inherent  unless this is replaced by another vowel or removed by the hal kirīma.

       Plosives  voiceless   voiced Unicode translit. IPA  Unicode translit. IPA velar ක 0D9A ka ග  0D9C ga velar retroflex ට 0DA7 ṭa ඩ  0DA9  ḍa retroflex dental ත   0DAD ta ද 0DAF da dental labial ප 0DB4 pa බ  0DB6 ba labial       Other letters        Unicode translit. IPA  Unicode translit. IPA fricatives ස  0DC3 sa හ 0DC4 ha fricatives affricates (ච) (0DA0) (ca)() ජ 0DA2 ja affricates nasals ම 0DB8 ma න 0DB1 na nasals liquid ල 0DBD la ර  0DBB ra liquid glide ව   0DC0 va ය 0DBA ya glide retroflex  ණ 0DAB ṇa   ළ 0DC5  ḷa  retroflex      Display this table as an image
Vowelsthumb|right|The vocalic diacritics for u and ū vary according to the consonant to which they are attached.
Vowels come in two shapes: independent and diacritic. The independent shape is used when a vowel does not follow a consonant, e.g. at the beginning of a word. The diacritic shape is used when a vowel follows a consonant. Depending on the vowel, the diacritic can attach at several places. The diacritic for  attaches above the consonant, the diacritic for  attaches below, the diacritic for  follows, while the diacritic for  precedes.  finally is marked by the combination of preceding  and following .

While <a,e,i,o> are regular, the diacritic for  takes a different shape according to the consonant it attaches to. The most common one is represented on the image on the right for the consonant ප (p). The k-shape is used for some consonants ending at the lower right corner (ක (k),ග (g), ත(t), but not න(n) or හ(h)). Combinations of ර(r) or  ළ(ḷ) with  have idiosyncratic shapes.Jayawardena-Moser (2004) p. 11

       Vowels  short   long   independent   diacritic   independent   diacritic                          අ 0D85   a inherent  a ආ 0D86 ā ා  0DCF ā ඇ 0D87 æ/äැ 0DD0 æ ඈ 0D88 ǣෑ 0DD1 ǣ ඉ 0D89 i  ි  0DD2 i ඊ 0D8A  ī  ී  0DD3 ī උ 0D8B  u ු  0DD4 u ඌ 0D8C ū ූ  0DD6 ū එ 0D91 e ෙ  0DD9 e ඒ 0D92 ē ේ  0DDA ē ඔ 0D94  o ො  0DDC o ඕ 0D95  ō ෝ  0DDD ō           Display this table as an image

In Sinhala the diacritics are called පිලි pili (vowel strokes). දිග diga means "long" because the vowel is sounded for longer and දෙක deka means "two" because the stroke is doubled when written.

Using the consonant 'k' + 'vowel' as an example: පිල්ල pilla Name TransliterationFormationCompound formISO 15919IPA ් හල් කිරිම hal kirīmaක්ක්k[k]◌Inherent /a/ (without any pili)ක් + අකka[kʌ] ා ඇලපිල්ල ælapillaක් + ආකාkā[kɑː] ැ ඇදය ædayaක් + ඇකැkæ ෑ දිග ඇදය diga ædayaක් + ඈකෑkǣ ි ඉස්පිල්ල ispillaක් + ඉකිki[ki] ී දිග ඉස්පිල්ල diga ispillaක් + ඊකීkī[kiː] ු පාපිල්ල pāpillaක් + උකුku[ku], [kɯ] ූ දිග පාපිල්ල diga pāpillaක් + ඌකූkū[kuː] ෘ ගැටය සහිත ඇලපිල්ල gæṭa sahita ælapillaක් + ර් + උකෘkru[kru] ෲ ගැටය සහිත ඇලපිලි දෙක gæṭa sahita ælapili dekaක් + ර් + ඌකෲkrū[kruː] ෟ ගයනුකිත්ත gayanukittaUsed in conjunction with kombuva for consonants. ෳ දිග ගයනුකිත්ත diga gayanukittaNot in contemporary use ෙ කොම්බුව kombuvaක් + එකෙke[ke] ේ කොම්බුව සහ හල්කිරීම kombuva saha halkirīmaක් + ඒකේkē[keː] ෛ කොම්බු දෙක kombu dekaක් + ඓකෛkai[kʌj] ො කොම්බුව සහ ඇලපිල්ල kombuva saha ælapillaක් + ඔකොko[ko] ෝ කොම්බුව සහ හල්ඇලපිල්ල kombuva saha halælapillaක් + ඕකෝkō[koː] ෞ කොම්බුව සහ ගයනුකිත්ත kombuva saha gayanukittaක් + ඖකෞkau[kʌʋ]

Prenasalized consonants

The prenasalized consonants resemble their plain counterparts.  is made up  by the left half of  and the right half of , while the other three are just like the grapheme for the plosive with a little stroke attached to their left.Fairbanks et al. (1968), p. 126 Vowel diacritics attach in the same way as they would to the corresponding plain plosive.

     Prenasalized consonants  nasalobstruent prenasalized  consonant Unicode translit. IPA velarඞගඟ 0D9F n̆ga  velar retroflexණඩඬ 0DAC n̆ḍa  retroflex dentalනදඳ 0DB3 n̆da  dental labialමබඹ 0DB9 m̆ba  labial Display this table as an image

Non-vocalic diacritics
The anusvara (often called binduva 'zero' ) is represented by one small circle ං (Unicode 0D82),Karunatillake (2004), p. xxxii and the visarga (technically part of the miśra alphabet) by two ඃ (Unicode 0D83). The inherent vowel can be removed by a special virama diacritic, the hal kirīma ( ්), which has two shapes depending on which consonant it attaches to. Both are represented in the image on the right side. The first one is the most common one, while the second one is used for letters ending at the top left corner.

Miśra set

The miśra alphabet is a superset of śuddha. It adds letters for aspirates, retroflexes and sibilants, which are not phonemic in today's Sinhala, but which are necessary to represent non-native words, like loanwords from Sanskrit, Pali or English. The use of the extra letters is mainly a question of prestige. From a purely phonemic point of view, there is no benefit in using them, and they can be replaced by a (sequence of) śuddha letters as follows: For the miśra aspirates, the replacement is the plain śuddha counterpart, for the miśra retroflex liquids the corresponding śuddha coronal liquid,Karunatillake (2004), p. xxxi for the sibilants, .Daniels (1996), p. 410.  ඤ (ñ) and  ඥ (gn) cannot be represented by śuddha graphemes but are found only in fewer than 10 words each. ෆ fa can be represented by ප pa with a Latin  inscribed in the cup.

     Extra miśra plosives  voiceless   voiced Unicode translit. IPA  Unicode translit. IPA velar ඛ 0D9B kha ඝ 0D9D gha velar retroflex ඨ 0DA8 ṭha ඪ 0DAA ḍha retroflex dental ථ 0DAE tha ධ 0DB0 dha dental labial ඵ 0DB5 pha භ 0DB7 bha labial       Other additional miśra graphemes        Unicode translit. IPA  Unicode translit. IPA sibilants ශ 0DC1 śa ෂ 0DC2 ṣa sibilants aspirate affricates ඡ 0DA1 cha ඣ 0DA3 jha aspirate affricates nasals ඤ 0DA4 ña ඥ 0DA5 gna nasals other ඞ 0D9E ṅa ෆ 0DC6 fa other otherඦ 0DA6 n̆jaThis letter is not used anywhere, neither in modern nor ancient Sinhala. Its usefulness is unclear, but it forms part of the standard alphabet <http://unicode.org/reports/tr2.html>.   fප n/a fa other      Display this table as an image

There are six additional vocalic diacritics in the miśra alphabet. The two diphthongs are quite common, while the "syllabic" ṛ is much rarer, and the "syllabic" ḷ is all but obsolete. The latter are almost exclusively found in loanwords from Sanskrit.Matzel (1983), p. 8

The miśra  can also be written with śuddha + or +, which corresponds to the actual pronunciation. The miśra syllabic  is obsolete, but can be rendered by śuddha +.Matzel (1983), p. 14 Miśra  is rendered as  śuddha , miśra   as śuddha .

       Vocalic diacritics  independent   diacritic   independent   diacritic                           diphthongs ඓ 0D93 ai ෛ 0DDB ai ඖ 0D96 au ෞ 0DDE au     diphthongs   syllabic r ඍ 0D8D ṛ ෘ  0DD8 ṛ ඎ 0D8E ṝ ෲ  0DF2 ṝ  syllabic r  syllabic l ඏ 0D8F ḷෟ  0DDF ḷ ඐ 0D90 ḹ ෳ 0DF3 ḹ  syllabic l           Display this table as an image

Note that the transliteration of both ළ් and ෟ is . This is not very problematic as the second one is extremely scarce.

Names of the graphemes
The letters of the English alphabet have more or less arbitrary names, e.g. em for the letter  or bee for the letter . The Sinhala śuddha graphemes are named in a uniform way adding -yanna to the sound produced by the letter, including vocalic diacritics.Fairbanks et al. (1968), p. 366 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).

Consonant conjuncts
Certain combinations of graphemes trigger special ligatures. Special signs exist for an ර (r) following a consonant (inverted arch underneath), a ර (r) preceding a consonant (loop above) and a  ය (y) following a consonant (half a ය on the right).

Fairbanks et al. (1968), p. 109
Jayawardena-Moser  (2004), p. 12
Furthermore, very frequent combinations are often written in one stroke, like ddh, kv or kś. If this is the case, the first consonant is not marked with a hal kirīma.

The image on the left shows the glyph for śrī, which is composed of the letter ś with a ligature indicating the r below and the vowel  ī marked above. Most other conjunct consonants are made with an explicit virama, called al-lakuna or hal kirīma, and the zero-width joiner as shown in the following table, some of which may not display correctly due to limitations of your system. Some of the more common are displayed in the following table. Note that 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. Also note that all of the combinations are encoded with the al-lakuna (Unicode U+0DCA) first, followed by the zero-width joiner (Unicode U+200D) except for touching letters which have the zero-width joiner (Unicode U+200D) first followed by the al-lakuna (Unicode U+0DCA). 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. In the table below, appending "o" (kombuva saha ælepilla – kombuva with ælepilla) to the cluster "ky"  only adds a single code point, but adds two vowel strokes, one each to the left and right of the consonant cluster.

 IPA Letters Unicode Combined Unicode Type /kja/ ක්ය U+0D9A U+0DCA U+0DBA ක්‍ය U+0D9A U+0DCA U+200D U+0DBA yansaya /kjo/ ක්යො U+0D9A U+0DCA U+0DBA U+0DCC ක‍්‍යො U+0D9A U+0DCA U+200D U+0DBA U+0DCC yansaya /ɡja/ ග්ය U+0D9C U+0DCA U+0DBA ග්‍ය U+0D9C U+0DCA U+200D U+0DBA yansaya /kra/ ක්ර U+0D9A U+0DCA U+0DBB ක්‍ර U+0D9A U+0DCA U+200D U+0DBB rakāransaya /ɡra/ ග්ර U+0D9C U+0DCA U+0DBB ග්‍ර U+0D9C U+0DCA U+200D U+0DBB rakāransaya /rka/ ර්ක U+0DBB U+0DCA U+0D9A ර්‍ක U+0DBB U+0DCA U+200D U+0D9A rēpaya /rɡa/ ර්ග U+0DBB U+0DCA U+0D9C ර්‍ග U+0DBB U+0DCA U+200D U+0D9C rēpaya /kjra/ ක්ය්ර U+0D9A U+0DCA U+0DBA U+0DCA U+0DBB ක්‍ය්‍ර U+0D9A U+0DCA U+200D U+0DBA U+0DCA U+200D U+0DBB yansaya + rakāransaya /ɡjra/ ග්ය්ර U+0D9C U+0DCA U+0DBA U+0DCA U+0DBB ග්‍ය්‍ර U+0D9C U+0DCA U+200D U+0DBA U+0DCA U+200D U+0DBB yansaya + rakāransaya /rkja/ ර්ක්ය U+0DBB U+0DCA U+0D9A U+0DCA U+0DBA ර්‍ක්‍ය U+0DBB U+0DCA U+200D U+0D9A U+0DCA U+200D U+0DBA rēpaya + yansaya /rɡja/ ර්ග්ය U+0DBB U+0DCA U+0D9C U+0DCA U+0DBA ර්‍ග්‍ය U+0DBB U+0DCA U+200D U+0D9C U+0DCA U+200D U+0DBA rēpaya + yansaya /kva/ ක්ව U+0D9A U+0DCA U+0DC0 ක්‍ව U+0D9A U+0DCA U+200D U+0DC0 conjunct /kʃa/ ක්ෂ U+0D9A U+0DCA U+0DC2 ක්‍ෂ U+0D9A U+0DCA U+200D U+0DC2 conjunct /t̪t̪ʰa/ ත්ථ U+0DAD U+0DCA U+0DAE ත්‍ථ U+0DAD U+0DCA U+200D U+0DAE conjunct /t̪va/ ත්ව U+0DAD U+0DCA U+0DC0 ත්‍ව U+0DAD U+0DCA U+200D U+0DC0 conjunct /nd̪a/ න්ද U+0DB1 U+0DCA U+0DAF න්‍ද U+0DB1 U+0DCA U+200D U+0DAF conjunct /nd̪ʰa/ න්ධ U+0DB1 U+0DCA U+0DB0 න්‍ධ U+0DB1 U+0DCA U+200D U+0DB0 conjunct /ⁿd̪t̪ʰa/ ඳ්ඨ U+0DB3 U+0DCA U+0DA8 ඳ්‍ඨ U+0DB3 U+0DCA U+200D U+0DA8 conjunct /ⁿd̪d̪ʰa/ ඳ්ධ U+0DB3 U+0DCA U+0DB0 ඳ්‍ධ U+0DB3 U+0DCA U+200D U+0DB0 conjunct /ⁿd̪va/ ඳ්ව U+0DB3 U+0DCA U+0DC0 ඳ්‍ව U+0DB3 U+0DCA U+200D U+0DC0 conjunct /mma/ ම්ම U+0DB8 U+0DCA U+0DB8 ම්ම U+0DB8 U+200D U+0DCA U+0DB8 touching

Similarities to other scripts
Sinhala is one of the Brahmic scripts, and thus shares many similarities with other members of the family, such as the Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil script and Devanāgarī. As a general example,  is the inherent vowel in all these scripts. Other similarities include the diacritic for , which resembles a doubled  in all scripts and the diacritic for  which is composed of preceding  and following .

 Script   Sinhala ෙ ෛෞ Malayalam െ ൈൌ Tamil ெ ைௌ Eastern Nagari ে ৈৌ Dēvanāgarī े ैौ

Likewise, the combination of the diacritics for  and  yields  in all these scripts.
 Script    Sinhala ෙ ා ො Malayalam െ ാ ൊ Tamil ெ ா ொ Eastern Nagari ে াো Dēvanāgarī े ा ो

Differences from other scripts
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).https://www.isoc.org/inet97/proceedings/E1/E1_3.HTM

Another feature that distinguishes Sinhala from its sister Indo-Aryan languages is the presence of a set of five nasal sounds known as half-nasal or prenasalized stops.
ඟඦඬඳඹn̆gan̆jan̆ḍan̆dan̆ba

Sinhala transliteration

Sinhala transliteration (Sinhala: රෝම අකුරින් ලිවීම rōma akurin livīma, 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.  for instance can be , , , , etc.
A transliteration pattern peculiar to Sinhala, and facilitated by the absence of phonemic aspirates, is the use of  for the voiceless dental plosive, and the use of  for the voiceless retroflex plosive.
This is presumably because the retroflex plosive  is perceived the same as the English alveolar plosive , and the Sinhala dental plosive  is equated with the English  voiceless dental fricative .Matzel (1983), p. 16 Dental and retroflex voiced plosives are always rendered as , though, presumably because  is not found as a representation of  in English orthography.

Unicode

Sinhalese 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.

Computer support


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 .

Sinhala does not come built in with Windows XP, unlike Tamil and Hindi. However, all versions of Windows Vista and Windows 10 come with Sinhala support by default, and do not require external fonts to be installed to read Sinhalese script. Nirmala UI is the default Sinhala font in windows 10.

For Mac OS X, Sinhala font and keyboard support can be found at web.nickshanks.com/typography/ and at www.xenotypetech.com/osxSinhala.html.

For Linux, the IBus, and SCIM input methods allow the use Sinhalese script in applications with support for a number of key maps and techniques such as traditional, phonetic and assisted techniques.A screenshot showing some of the options In addition, newer versions of Android mobile operating system also support both rendering and input of the Sinhala script.

Online resources
 Sinhala guide of the Sinhalese Wikipedia (in English)
 Online Sinhala Unicode Writer
 Sinhala English Dictionary and Sinhala To Hindi Language Translator 
 Sinhala Unicode Support Group
 Online Unicode Converter
 Sinhala spell checker 

Image list for readers with font problems
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See also
 Sinhalese Braille
 Dutch loanwords in Sinhala
 English loanwords in Sinhala
 Portuguese loanwords in Sinhala
 Tamil loanwords in Sinhala
 History of Sinhala software
 Singlish Typewriter

Notes

References

External links

Sinhala Unicode Character Code Chart
Sinhala Archaic Numbers Unicode Character Code Chart
Complete table of consonant-diacritic-combinations 
Complete table of consonant-diacritic-combinations as text 
Sinhala page at Omniglot
Sinhala basic course, module 1, "Beginning signs and letters"  (Bonny Graham MacDougall and Kamini de Abrew, Foreign service institute)

Transliteration Add-on for Firefox (Tamil script to Sinhalese script) 
Sinhala Accepted As One Of The World’s Most Creative Alphabets
Sinhala Unicode Converter 

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