
Sinhala or Sinhalese (a.k.a. Singhalese) is the language of the Sinhalese, the largest ethnic group of Sri Lanka. It is spoken by about 19 million Sri Lankans, including 16 million native speakers. Sinhala has its own writing system derived from the Indian Brahmi script. The oldest Sinhala inscriptions were written in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE and its oldest existing literary works date back to the 9th century CE. Sinhala belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages and it...
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