KryssTal : Writing - Sinhalese (original) (raw)

| [Home Page] [Language Page] [Writing Page] [Evolution of the Latin Alphabet] [Evolution of Writing Systems] [Amharic] [Arabic] [Aramaic] [Armenian] [Bengali] [Berber] [Brahmi] [Burmese] [Cham] [Chinese Characters] [Chinese Pictograms] [Coptic] [Cuniform] [Cyrillic] [Etruscan] [Georgian] [Greek] [Gujarati] [Hebrew] [Hindi] [Japanese] [Javanese] [Kannada] [Khmer] [Korean] [Lao] [Latin (Roman and Modern)] [Lepcha] [Linear B] [Malayalam] [Maldivian] [Mayan] [Mongolian] [Nastaliq] [Oriya] [Phoenician] [Punjabi] [Runic] [Samaritan] [Sanskrit] [Sinhalese] [Syriac] [Tamil] [Telugu] [Thai] [Tibetan] [Tocharian] [Ugarit] [Readers' Feedback (Languages)]Script samples from OmniGlot | The Sinhalese Syllabary Sinhalese is a typical curly South Indian script.The curly lines arose because the language was written on palm leaves - these break if a straight line is used.It is used by the language of the same name spoken on the island of Sri Lanka. | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |