Unknown to the media and most in Sri Lanka the Sinhala language has won international recognition. More precisely, it is the Sinhala script rather than the language itself that has been named as one ...

Sinhala script had derived from Brahmi script that had given rise to almost all North and South Indian scripts. In the older tradition, Brahmi has been classified into two subgroups namely Northern ...

Archaeological excavations in Anuradhapura have shed new light on writing in ancient Sri Lanka. Valuable findings have emerged from the excavations in the Anuradhapura citadel site. Thirty two pieces ...

Nimal Herath, an engineer by profession, has now written a book on ‘epigraphy’, the study of inscriptions. How he moved from engineering to archaeology, particularly to paleography, is a matter of ...

Sinhala has been in use for two and a half millennia, the language has a continuous recorded history of 2300 years. It has today entered the world of information technology with its own UNICODE, said ...

Sinhala and Tamil are categorised under complex scripts at the time Unicode technology was created to render them on computers. Sinhala had taken a long and arduous computerisation journey, in the ...

Sumanthri Samarawickrama Jayaweera is a Lecturer at the University of Moratuwa. Sumanthri was part of a panel discussion at the presentation of Visual Diversity in Sri Lanka, a book on design, at the ...

Abstract: Sinhala script is categorized as a segmental writing system and therefore consonant-vowel sequences are identified as a unit. Depending on the vowel and the consonant combination, the ...

The aim of this project was to experiment creating a basic optical character recognition (OCR) system that can take images of printed Sinhalese characters, Sinhala being the national language of Sri ...

This repository provides a Romanized Sinhala to Sinhala transliteration tool, allowing users to easily convert text written in Romanized Sinhala script into Sinhala script. The tool is designed to be ...