- The Sinhala language, often called Sinhalese or Helabasa, is an Indo-European language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of this language family.
- Sinhala is one of the oldest languages of the world. The first historic rock carving believed to be the first use of Sinhala was discovered in 200 BC.
- The native name of the language is සිංහල (Sinhāla), which comes from Sanskrit and could be translated as “lion-seizer”, “lion-killer” or “lion blood”.
- Today, the Sinhala Department at Kelaniya University stands as a fully established department, boasting a highly qualified and competent faculty.
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- The Sinhala language is therefore a member of the Aryan family of languages, which is a member of a still larger family of languages known as Indo-European.
- Even though Sinhala is an Indo-European language, as is English, it is very far from English geographically and linguistically.
- An attempt has been made below to transliterate the Sinhala vowels and consonants with reasonable accuracy using Roman characters and some other signs.