Sinhala input methods

A screencast showing Sinhala text being entered using the Intelligent Input Bus into Firefox under Linux. As shown in the video, under the Singlish method, to input විකිපීඩියා (Wikipedia), wikipIdiyaa is entered.

Sinhala input methods are ways of writing the Sinhala language, spoken primarily in Sri Lanka, using a computer. Sinhala input methods can be broadly classified into two main groups: ones based on typewriter keyboard layouts, and ones that are meant to be typed on QWERTY keyboards using an input method, known as "Singlish".[1]

  1. ^ Kishino, Fumio; Itoh, Yuichi; Hayashi, Yoshihiko; Goonetilleke, Sandeva (2007). "An Efficient and User-friendly Sinhala Input Method Based on Phonetic Transcription". Information and Media Technologies. 2 (4): 1228–1247. doi:10.11185/imt.2.1228. ISSN 1881-0896.