Sinhala script
| Sinhalese script සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāwa | |
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| Script type | |
Period | 8th century CE – present[1] |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| Languages | Sinhalese, Pali, Sanskrit |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Sinh (348), Sinhala |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Sinhala |
Unicode range |
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| Brahmic scripts |
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| The Brahmi script and its descendants |
The Sinhalese script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāwa), also known as Sinhala script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhalese language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit.[3] The Sinhalese Akṣara Mālāva, one of the Brahmic scripts, is a descendant of the Ancient Indian Brahmi script. It is thought to be derived from Grantha script.[7][1][8]
- ^ a b c Diringer, David (1948). Alphabet a key to the history of mankind. p. 389.
- ^ Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography, R. Malatesha Joshi, Catherine McBride (2019), p.28
- ^ a b Daniels (1996), p. 408.
- ^ Salomon, Richard (1998). Indian Epigraphy. p. 40.
- ^ Mirza, Amna; Gottardo, Alexandra (2019). "Learning to Read in Their Heritage Language: Hindi-English Speaking Children Reading Two Different Orthographies". Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography. Springer International Publishing. pp. 329–351. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05977-4_17. ISBN 978-3-030-05977-4. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
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