Sinhalen Z liyamu

[rishh]

hoda wadak, mehe ina anik modayo kiyana dewal uba ganan ganna epa. hama magulatama aagamak adagannawa. mala karadarayak ne meka.

 

[BlAcKIssUeS]

උඹත් නියම කොල්ලෙක් නෙ ! මමත් ඔය ගැන මේ ලඟදි කල්පනා කළා. මම යෝජනා කරනවා මේ අකුර.

අකුර නොදන්න කෙනෙක්ට වුණත් වචනෙක දැක්කොත් තේරුම් ගන්න පුළුවන් වෙයි කියල හිතෙනවා මෙහෙම ලිව්වොත්

Agreed... 100%

 

[skanthan]

there is no necessity of that letter, we can do our day to day work without that letter, so what's the problem ? why are we trying to complex our alphabet ?

What do you mean no necessity of that letter? I think it would be good of a letter for the Z sound was added to the Sinhala alphabet and put to use.

 

[jk perera]

adhahasa nam maru..eth ara bulb ekak wage thiyenne mokakda?

 

[shenu]

What do you mean no necessity of that letter? I think it would be good of a letter for the Z sound was added to the Sinhala alphabet and put to use.

okay just tell me at least 15 words which included letter Z

 

[skanthan]

okay just tell me at least 15 words which included letter Z

I don't know I can give you 15, but I can say some loan words which have sa in place of za.

Z = ised
bulldozer = buldosar eka
zebra = seebraawa
New Zealand = Nawa Seelanthaya

Also some non Sinhala names/place names which have Z but written with sa when transliterated in Sinhala script.

Zahira - Sahira
Zachary - Saaekaree
Hazel - Hesal
Miyazaki - Miyasaaki
Benazir - Benasir

Zimbabwe - Simbaabwe
Zurich - Surik
Tanzania - Taaensaniya

Zulu - Sulu

 

[skanthan]

Shenu,

As much I feel a letter with a Z sound should be added in the Sinhala alphabet and put in use, I will try to see it from your point of view.

Okay.. If there is no need of a letter for Z in the Sinhala alphabet, then why do we need ෆ then?

As of now we use ස for both S and Z. So if there is no need to have a sperate letter for Z in the Sinhala alphabet, why not scrap the letter ෆ and go back to using ප for both P and F?

Also back in the day, up until the 1980s when Professor J. B. Dissanayaka introduced the letter ෆ, people who wanted to properly represent the F sound in Sinhala would use the imitation letter, fප for F.

Something for you to think about.

 

[skanthan]

With a Sinhala letter for Z added, the words and names I listed above would become as follows.

Z = ized
bulldozer = buldozar eka
zebra = zeebraawa
New Zealand = Nawa Zeelanthaya
Zahira - Zahira
Zachary - Zaaekaree
Hazel - Hezal
Miyazaki - Miyazaaki
Benazir - Benazir
Zimbabwe - Zimbaabwe
Zurich - Zurik
Tanzania - Taaenzaniya
Zulu - Zulu

 

[shenu]

Shenu,

As much I feel a letter with a Z sound should be added in the Sinhala alphabet and put in use, I will try to see it from your point of view.

Okay.. If there is no need of a letter for Z in the Sinhala alphabet, then why do we need ෆ then?

As of now we use ස for both S and Z. So if there is no need to have a sperate letter for Z in the Sinhala alphabet, why not scrap the letter ෆ and go back to using ප for both P and F?

Also back in the day, up until the 1980s when Professor J. B. Dissanayaka introduced the letter ෆ, people who wanted to properly represent the F sound in Sinhala would use the imitation letter, fප for F.

Something for you to think about.

we need ෆ because we can't make that sound with our alphabet. and as you mentioned we can use ස for make that Z sound. that's why I'm keep telling you there is no necessity of Letter Z.

P.S : sorry for taking a long time to reply

 

[manjupal]

me satho. tho ape language 1 gana karadara wenna epa. uba akuru hoyapan ubalage language 1ta. awa methana sinhala kanna.

 

[skanthan]

we need ෆ because we can't make that sound with our alphabet. and as you mentioned we can use ස for make that Z sound. that's why I'm keep telling you there is no necessity of Letter Z.

P.S : sorry for taking a long time to reply

If in my own personal writing, I want to write ස with a small z beside for Z, can I do so?

It is nice to hear different oppinions, isn't it?


I still feel that a letter for Z should be added to the Sinhala alphabet.

Otherwise, if there is no need of a letter for the Z sound, then we really do not need letter ෆ either.

But at the same time, I respect your views.

Though I feel that saying we need one letter, namely, ෆ for F as we cannot make that sound with the Sinhala alphabet, but no need of a letter for Z is contradictory as really, neither of those sounds existed in Sinhala and cannot be written with the traditional Sinhala alphabet.

 

[thilina91]

arabic letter ekakda koheda

 

[skanthan]

arabic letter ekakda koheda

There is an Arabic letter which has the sound of Z.

ز

Hindi also has a letter (ज़) for the Z sound. Same is the case with the Punjabi language which has the letter ਜ਼ in its alphabet for the Z sound.

 

[chatm]

ඕකට කියන්නේ 'හිඩැස්' කියලා.... හී හී හී

 

[skanthan]

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"Z" akura sandaha yojitha sinhala akurak thiyenawa. Thawama bhavithayata avith ne. F akurata sinhala akurak nirmanaya kara athuwa wagema Z akuratath eweni nirmanayak ehi shabdaya asuren saada thiyenawa. sinhala "ha" saha "Sha" shabda asurinui eya saada thiyenne.

Can someone translate for me what sriboysl said above?

 

[skanthan]

Hello, please can someone translate the Sinhala in my above post for me into English? I am resquesting this as I do not understand Sinhala.

 

[skanthan]

Cool! Where did you get that from?

 

[skanthan]

There is a sinhala letter proposed for "za", but it still had not released. We did not have a sinhala letter for "fa". Now we have created a sinhala word ෆ.

Do you know who proposed the letter for "za"? I hope we will see that letter for "za" soon.

 

[skanthan]

It is my idea....

Nice! I like it, machang!

 

[skanthan]

Is this also your idea, machang? This looks like ෆ written upside down.