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| Why this pages and who is behind them ? At the moment there is nearly no credible information about sinhala available on the Internet. Even when you try to get some good books about sinhala you will not find a lot of them (just very simplified or very old ones). To change this situation at least a little bit we decided to start a page dedicated to sinhala and see if the community of sinhala interested people will appreciate it. This page is mainly done by Shirani (Singhalese) and Roland (Austrian, speaking a kind of german ;) ). Due to both of us are no native english speakers we hope you will forgive us our english weaknesses. About the script on this page To make the sinhala script available to all of you, I decided to create my own system to translate latin letters into sinhala signs. Whenever there is something written in brackets {} on this page, it will be automatically translated into appropriate images. If there is {ma} written it will be seen as  . I know that there are various fonts out there, but basically most of them are not standardized and the operating system support is weak right now. At the moment Unicode fonts are widely available we will offer them as well.Additionally I adapted the usually used transcription (how to write sinhala signs with our letters) a bit. Instead of using the letters with additional dots and strokes around them, I decided to use only the 26 letters from the alphabet. So instead of transcribing  as "ta" with a dot under the "t", I just write "tta". This does not change anything regarding the pronounciation and people all over the world are capable to write the signs. Best is to check our Sinhala Sign Page for details.
About the texts on this site We are only capable to show you a small part of the rich sinhala language and even there we might have some mistakes. We would welcome any suggestions you send us. And if you are a native sinhala speaker we would like to get some input or help for audio recordings to implement in future versions. How to contact us ? Contact us at info@ceylon-online.com |
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