ela_eluwa120 said:
செந்நாய் = සෙන්නායි = වල් බල්ලා
எலி = එලි = මීයා
குரங்கு = කුරංගු = වදුරා
முதலை = මුදලෛ = කිඹුලා
கிலி = කිලි = ගිරවා
Dear ela_eluwa,
I really like how you have so accurately represented certain Tamil sounds in Sinhalese script. It is so accurate!
For the Tamil word, கிலி, the Sinhalese spelling which I have shown in bold lettering is the correct one.
In the list below, I have given some Tamil letters and how they can be represented in Sinhalese transliteration. By following this convention, the transliterations from Tamil script into Sinhala will be accurate. For some Tamil letters, I have given some underlined Sinhalese letters.
ண = ණ
ந = න
ர = ර
ல = ල
ழ = ළ
ள = ළ
ற = ර
ன = න
I hope that this will be of help to Sinhalese trying to learn Tamil. By using the underline under the the coresponding Sinhalese equivelents of those sound for which letters are not found in the Sinhalese alphabet, we are immitating the western phonetic convention of placing an underline under l, r and n respectively to represent the letters, ழ, ற, and ன.