Category
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Sinhala
Indo-Aryan language native to Sri Lanka
Vedda
language of the Vedda people
Elu
Eḷa, also Elu, Hela or Helu Prakrit, was a Middle Indo-Aryan language or Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE, that was used in Sri Lanka. It was ancestral to the Sinhalese and Dhivehi languages.
R. C. Childers, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, states:
The Pali scholar Thomas William Rhys Davids refers to Eḷu as "the Prakrit of Ceylon".
Sinhala Archaic Numbers
Unicode block (U+111E0-111FF)
Sinhala Only Act
act making Sinhala the official language in Ceylon
Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary
Sri Lankan free electronic dictionary service