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  1. skanthan

    Do we need ණ and ළ?

    You are right. I think the person who said ණ and ළ should be done away with does not have a clear understanding of Sinhala grammar. When I pointed out that such a move would result in many homophones in the language ie: තන/තණ, being spelt simply as තන, he retorted that people can read from context.
  2. skanthan

    Do we need ණ and ළ?

    I totally agree with you %100. Actually, according to Sinhala grammar, ණ and ළ are actually supposed to be pronounced by rolling the tip of the tongue back towards the hard palate as we do when pronouncing ට, ඨ, ඩ and ඪ. But since the 13th century CE, ණ and ළ have been pronounced the same as න...
  3. skanthan

    Do we need ණ and ළ?

    Hey, I am not the one who wants those two letters out of our alphabet. (I think dropping ණ and ළ from the Sinhala alphabet would be a very bad move. :no:) I am trying to get some answers to that person who told me they think ණ and ළ should be dropped from the alphabet!
  4. skanthan

    Do we need ණ and ළ?

    Sometime ago, someone had told me that ණ and ළ should be dropped from the Sinhala alphabet and the letters න and ල be used in their place. I understand that from a phonemic point of view, ණ and ළ are pronounced the same as න and ල. But in reality, would dropping ණ and ළ be a good idea? There...
  5. skanthan

    Sinhalen Z liyamu

    Yesterday in a function at the Sri Lanka Canada Friendship Association here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, I showed the following two proposed letters for Z to several people and was surprised to find that they liked the second idea put forward by kiri-putha as opposed to the Z letter shown in...
  6. skanthan

    Sinhala letter ඍ.

    I hope to hear more about it soon.
  7. skanthan

    Sinhala letter ඍ.

    Actually, ඍ is of Sanskrit origin.
  8. skanthan

    Sinhala letter ඍ.

    That is very interesting! I always knew ඍ as "iruyanna". But this name, "irukaaramshaya", I never heard. :cool:
  9. skanthan

    Sinhala letter ඍ.

    Actually, it is of Sanskrit origin. Also I understand that previously, say, about 200-300 years ago, ඍ was written slightly different from how it is written now and also was not included at one point in the main mishra Sinhala hodiya.
  10. skanthan

    Sinhala letter ඍ.

    I would like to, but, unfortunately, any information online about Sinhala alphabet does not really go into detail about it's history. Also, about 10 years ago, there was a website from Alu Vihara which had a chart showing the evoulution of Sinhala letters, but, before I could print that chart...
  11. skanthan

    Sinhala letter ඍ.

    Please can someone tell me the history of the Sinhala letter ඍ? ie: when was it first introduced into Sinhala etc.. I hope to hear something soon. Thank you!
  12. skanthan

    Sinhalen Z liyamu

    :oo::lol::rofl: Who wants to add a W letter to the Sinhala alphabet? We already have a letter, ව, for that sound! :shocked::shocked: :baffled:
  13. skanthan

    Sinhalen Z liyamu

    අආඇඈඉඊඋඌ ඍඎඑඒඓඔඕඖ කඛගඝඞඟ චඡජඣඤඥ ටඨඩඪණඬ තථදධනඳ පඵබභමඹ යරලවශෂ සහළෆඅංඅඃ
  14. skanthan

    Sinhalen Z liyamu

    Here is my Sinhala alphabet chart. In the chart below, letters which appeared in the original Sinhala alphabet (Elu Hodiya) are shown in black, letters common to both Pali and Sanskrit are in blue, letters from Sanskrit are in green and the letters used for writing European and other non South...
  15. skanthan

    Sinhalen Z liyamu

    This idea for a "za" is also very good.
  16. skanthan

    Sinhalen Z liyamu

    The letter which MuslimLankan proposed for the "za" sound looks like the old Sinhala number 7. But it is also a good proposal.
  17. skanthan

    Sinhalen Z liyamu

    That's wonderful! Congratulations, machang!
  18. skanthan

    Sinhalen Z liyamu

    Here is the letter I use for "za". zස I saw this, combined with ි, in an old issue of Divaina from 1997 and it appears in various combinations (each English word would have a Sinhala spelling, indicating promunciation, next to it in brackets) in my copy of De Zoysas English-Sinhala...
  19. skanthan

    Sinhalen Z liyamu

    Dear Kiri-putha, Please can you post an image of the Sinhala alphabet with your idea for "za" included. I have a Sinhala alphabet on my computer with another z letter which looks like letter ස with a small English z on its left. ie: zස
  20. skanthan

    Sinhalen Z liyamu

    Please provide an English translation above. What kind of reputation did MuslimLankan receive? I hope he/she isn't in trouble. Soon, I will start learning Sinhala. I look forward to knowing more than what I already know. Wish me luck! :)

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