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The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. [3]
English: The basic form of the letter k is ක "ka". For "ki", a small arch called ispilla is placed over the ක: කි. This replaces the inherent /a/ by /i/. It is also possible to have no vowel following a consonant.
The Sinhala Suddha ka (ඛ), called mahaapraana kayanna in Unicode, is the second letter of Sinhala script, and is part of the Miśra set of Sinhala consonants. Although it is derived from the Grantha letter kha , modern Sinhala no longer distinguishes between aspirated (Miśra) and unaspirated (Śuddha) consonants, and ඛ is pronounced the ...
SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA KAYANNA KAYAH LI LETTER KA CHAKMA LETTER KAA TAI LE LETTER KA AHOM LETTER KA DIVES AKURU LETTER KA SAURASHTRA LETTER KA CHAM LETTER KA Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 3482: U+0D9A: 43274: U+A90A: 69895: U+11107: 6480: U+1950: 71424: U+11700: 71948: U+1190C: 43154 ...
Sinhala: Brahmi [15] 4th century [16] Sinhala language: Sinh U+0D80–U+0DFF, U+111E0–U+111FF ශුද්ධ සිංහල: Sundanese: Kawi: 14th century Sundanese language: Sund U+1B80–U+1BBF, U+1CC0–U+1CCF ᮃᮊ᮪ᮞᮛ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ Sylheti Nagari: Nagari: 16th century Historically used for writing the Sylheti language: Sylo U ...
A vowel combines with a consonant in their diacritic form. For example, the vowel आ (ā) combines with the consonant क् (k) to form the syllabic letter का (kā), with halant (cancel sign) removed and added vowel sign which is indicated by diacritics. The vowel अ (a) combines with the consonant क् (k) to form क (ka) with
'sumihiri' distinguishes between the two 'ම' letters in the Sinhala word 'මම'. This is to facilitate correct pronouncing of text written using 'sumihiri'. The first 'ම', which has an 'open' sound is written as 'ma', whereas the second 'ම', which has a 'closed' sound is written as 'me'.
In Devanagari and many other Indic scripts, a virama is used to cancel the inherent vowel of a consonant letter and represent a consonant without a vowel, a "dead" consonant. For example, in Devanagari, क is a consonant letter, ka, ् is a virāma; therefore, क् (ka + virāma) represents a dead consonant k.