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අපේ මංගල උත්සවය කසුන් සහ චතුරි
celebrationSinhala Ceremonial Terms
apee maMgala uthsawayaඅපේ මංගල උත්සවය
pooruwa chaarithraපෝරුව චාරිත්ර
suba naekathaසුබ නැකත
aaraaDhanaa pathrayaආරාධනා පත්රය
pirith piMkamaපිරිත් පිංකම
font_downloadSinhala Modifiers (පිල්ලම්)
ka + a -> kaක
ka + aa -> kaaකා (ඇලපිල්ල)
ka + e -> keකෙ (කොම්බුව)
ka + ee or ei -> keeකේ (දික් කොම්බුව)
ka + i -> kiකි (ඉස්පිල්ල)
The Sinhala typing table
Every Sinhala letter has one fixed code, and nothing is guessed from the word you type. Consonants and special letters follow ITRANS, the documented plain-keyboard scheme for Indian-script languages. Vowels follow the usual Singlish habit. Where we differ from ITRANS is listed below the table.
Vowels
aaeඈකෑaaආකාaeඇකැaiඓකෛauඖකෞee or eiඒකේiiඊකීooඕකෝuuඌකූRRiඍකෘRRIඎකෲLLiඏකෟLLIඐකෳaඅeඑකෙiඉකිoඔකොuඋකුVelar
kකkhඛgගghඝN^ඞng^ඟPalatal
c or chචChඡjජjhඣ~n or nyඤjn or GYඥnj^ඦRetroflex
TටTHඨDඩDHඪNණnD^ඬLළDental
t or thතThථd or dhදDhධnනnd^ඳLabial
pපphඵbබbhභmමmb^ඹOthers
yයrරlලv or wවshශS or ShෂsසhහfෆSigns and joined forms
MංHඃk^raක්රk^yaක්යr^kaර්කRules
- Double a vowel for the long sound: aa, ii, uu, ee, oo. A lone e or o is the short vowel.
- A consonant on its own is the bare letter (k = ක්); add a vowel for the full letter (ka = ක).
- Capital letters are special letters: N ණ L ළ T ට D ඩ S ෂ M ං H ඃ Th ථ Dh ධ.
- A capital that starts a word is read as the plain letter (Nimal, Thilini). Write a dot first (.N, .Sh) for the special one.
- ^ joins: ng^ ඟ, nd^ ඳ, nD^ ඬ, nj^ ඦ, mb^ ඹ; k^ra ක්ර; k^ya ක්ය; r^ka ර්ක.
- Consonants and special letters follow ITRANS, except that th and dh are the plain ත ද.
How this differs from ITRANS
- A single
eorois the short vowel (ITRANS reads it as the long one). Useeeandoofor the long vowels. thanddhare the plain ත and ද, because that is how Sri Lankan names are written (Thilini, Dilshan). ITRANS makes them the aspirated ථ and ධ, which here areThandDh.- The joined nasal letters and the conjunct joiners use
^, because ITRANS has no plain-keyboard code for them.
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