Sinhala script
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Brahmic writing system
Key facts
- Script type
- Abugida
- Period
- 8th century CE – present
- Direction
- Left-to-right
- Languages
- Sinhalese , Pali , Sanskrit
- Parent systems
- Egyptian Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brahmi Tamili Pallava Grantha Sinhalese script
- Iso 15924
- Sinh (348) , Sinhala
- Unicode alias
- Sinhala
- Unicode range
- U+0D80–U+0DFF Sinhala U+111E0–U+111FF , Sinhala Archaic Numbers
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- unicase alphabet
- Based on
- Brahmi
- Image
- Sinhala Om symbol.png
- Has use
- Sinhala
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- Commons category
- Sinhala script
- language of work or name
- Sanskrit
- topic's main category
- Category:Sinhala script
- Unicode range
- U+111E0-111FF
- name
- singhalais
- native label
- සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව
- inception
- 0300-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Sinhalese script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāwa), also known as Sinhala script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhalese language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. The Sinhalese Akṣara Mālāva, one of the Brahmic scripts, is a descendant of the Ancient Indian Brahmi script. It is thought to be derived from Grantha script.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sinhala script” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.