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Sinhala script

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…

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Direction
Left-to-right
Languages
Sinhalese, Pali, Sanskrit
Parent systems
Proto-SinaiticPhoenicianAramaicBrahmiTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script · PhoenicianAramaicBrahmiTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script · AramaicBrahmiTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script · BrahmiTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script · TamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script
Period
8th century CE – present
Script type
Abugida
Unicode alias
Sinhala

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Sinhala script

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Edges105
Triples104
Avg. degree1.98
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Sinhala script

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related to history · 29
Sinhala script → AD, Although, Anuradhapura, BCE, Brahmi, Buddhist, CE, Ceylonese Brahmi, Diringer, For, Grantha, Helu Prakrit, However, Indian, It, Medieval, Medieval Sinhalese, Northern India, Pali, Pottery
related to Computer encoding · 14
Sinhala script → Devanāgarī, Generally, Hindi, Keyman, Microsoft Windows XP, Nirmala UI, SIL International, Sinhala, Sinhala Archaic Numbers, Tamil, The, Thereafter, Windows, Windows Vista
related to Structure · 13
Sinhala script → AD, Eḷu, However, It, Modern Sinhala, Most, Pili, Sidatsan, Sinhala, The, This, To, Upper
related to Use for the Pali language · 13
Sinhala script → At, BCE, Brahmi, Buddhist, Consonant, Many, On, Pali, Pali Tripitaka, Sinhala, Sri Lanka, Successive, The
related to Unicode · 12
Sinhala script → Another, Its, June, September, Sinhala, Sinhala Archaic Numbers, Sri Lanka, Standard SLS1134, The, This, Unicode, Unicode Standard
Parent systems · 8
Sinhala script → AramaicBrahmiTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script, BrahmiTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script, GranthaSinhalese script, PallavaGranthaSinhalese script, PhoenicianAramaicBrahmiTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script, Proto-SinaiticPhoenicianAramaicBrahmiTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script, Sinhalese script, TamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script
Unicode range · 2
Sinhala script → U+0D80–U+0DFF Sinhala, U+111E0–U+111FF Sinhala Archaic Numbers
Direction · 1
Sinhala script → Left-to-right
ISO 15924 · 1
Sinhala script → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Sinh (348), ​Sinhala
Languages · 1
Sinhala script → Sinhalese, Pali, Sanskrit

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sinhala script used śuddha vowel pali miśra letters alphabet written sinhalese two one unicode consonants consonant also scripts support grantha

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Sinhala scriptDirectionLeft-to-right1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptISO 15924.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Sinh (348), ​Sinhala1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptLanguagesSinhalese, Pali, Sanskrit1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptParent systemsProto-SinaiticPhoenicianAramaicBrahmiTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptParent systemsPhoenicianAramaicBrahmiTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptParent systemsAramaicBrahmiTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptParent systemsBrahmiTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptParent systemsTamiliPallavaGranthaSinhalese script1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptParent systemsPallavaGranthaSinhalese script1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptParent systemsGranthaSinhalese script1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptParent systemsSinhalese script1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptPeriod8th century CE – present1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptScript typeAbugida1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptUnicode aliasSinhala1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptUnicode rangeU+0D80–U+0DFF Sinhala1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptUnicode rangeU+111E0–U+111FF Sinhala Archaic Numbers1.00infobox
Sinhala scriptis aBrahmi derivate and was thought to have been imported from Northern India around the 3rd century BCE0.90text

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