Ayubowan!
I am interested in getting copies of January 1992 to April 1992 issues of The Silumina.
The reason being is because that year, I had a copy of the Silumina from March or early April of that year and on the front page of the second section, there was an article, or short story...
I got a copy of the Encyclopedia of Sinhala by J. B. Dissanayake and a facsimile of A Comprehensive Grammar of the Sinhalese language by Abraham Mendis Gunasekera and found all my answers in regards to ෆ. This letter was coined in and used more or less since the late 19th century. It would be...
Please can someone translate the following article for me? I had found this on the Sinhala Wikipedia.
සිංහල බසට 19 සියවසේදී එක්වූ ඉංග්රීසි වදන් ලිවීම සඳහා අවැසි අකුරකි. 1891 වසරේදී ගුණසේකර මුදලිඳුතුමා විසින් අකුරේ හැඩය නිර්මානයකර ඇත. සියවසක් තිස්සේ ක්රමිකව භාවිතය වැඩිවූ මෙම අකුර 1989දී ජාතික...
Please can someone post an image for me of a Mishra Sinhala hodiya chart with the letters ඍ, ඎ, ඏ, ඐ, ඟ, ඥ, ඦ, ඬ, ඳ, ඹ and ෆ included? That would be much appreciated. Thanks! :)
I do know that the letter ෆ was coined by J. B. Dissanayake in the early 1980s for the English F sound. But I do not know where he got that letter from or what sparked the idea to have a letter in the Sinhala alphabet for the F sound.
Please can someone tell me about the history/origin of the Sinhala letter ෆ?
I understand ෆ came into the Sinhala script about 30 years ago. I tried to research more on the history of the letter ෆ, and I only found something that said it is a new letter for the English F sound, but didn't go...
Please check the following link for the sagngnaka thaaluja sayanna I mentioned above.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=sBQYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA254&dq=%22Sinhalese+alphabet%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=otdQT66xKOTniAKi-Py0Bg&sqi=2&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22Sinhalese%20alphabet%22&f=false
You will see it on...
I see now. I have also seen the letter zස, though rarely, being used for z. I guess the letter zස is used more in handwriting than in printing. Where have you seen zස being used?
Another interesting letter I have heard about is one called sagngnaka thaaluja sayanna which also I have never seen...