Sinhala script

Sinhala script (Sinhalese)
සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව
Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva
Script type
Time period
c. 300 – present[1]
DirectionLeft-to-right Edit this on Wikidata
LanguagesSinhala, Pali, Sanskrit
Related scripts
Parent systems
Sister systems
Tamil-Brahmi, Gupta, Bhattiprolu, Kadamba, Tocharian
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Sinh (348), ​Sinhala
Unicode
Unicode alias
Sinhala
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The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), 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.[3] 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.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference diringer was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography, R. Malatesha Joshi, Catherine McBride(2019),p.28
  3. ^ a b Daniels (1996), p. 408.
  4. ^ Masica, Colin P. (1993). The Indo-Aryan Languages. p. 143.