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Sinhalese alphabet and characters
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The Sinhala writing system is an “abugida” where the consonants are written with letters while the vowels are indicated with diacritics on those consonants.
Sinhalese grammar rules
There are differences between Spoken Sinhalese and Literary Sinhalese.
Nouns inflect for case, animacy, number and definiteness.
There are singular and masculine forms. There are three genders: animate masculine, animate feminine, inanimate neuter.
Spoken Sinhala has six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, genitive, instrumental-ablative, and vocative. Literary Sinhala also has a marked accusative case.
Sinhalese has an indefinite suffix used only in the singular (-ak/ek), its absence marks definiteness.
Sinhalese formatting rules
| Short date format | Yyyy/MM/dd |
| e.g. 2016/03/17 | |
| Long date format | yyyy MMMM dd |
| e.g. 2016 පශර්තු 17 |
Sinhalese capitalisation usage
This section does not apply to Sinhalese.
Solutions for Sinhalese
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