11 Facts About Sinhala script

Sinhala script, 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.

Sinhala script is an abugida written from left to right.

Sinhala script is a Brahmi derivate, and was imported from Northern India, around the 3rd century BCE.

Sinhala script developed in a complex manner, part independent but strongly influenced by South Indian scripts at various stages, manifestly influenced by the early Grantha script.

Sinhala script is an abugida written from left to right.

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Out of pure coincidence, the phoneme inventory of present-day colloquial Sinhala script is such that yet again the suddha alphabet suffices as a good representation of the sounds.

All native phonemes of the Sinhala script spoken today can be represented in, while in order to render special Sanskrit and Pali sounds, one can fall back on.

Sinhala script had special symbols to represent numerals, which were in use until the beginning of the 19th century.

Sinhala script Illakkam were used for writing numbers prior to the fall of Kandyan Kingdom in 1815.

Sinhala script support did not come built in with Microsoft Windows XP, unlike Tamil and Hindi, but was supported by third-party means such as Keyman by SIL International.

Sinhala script was added to the Unicode Standard in September 1999 with the release of version 3.