Sinhala

ISO 15924: SinhAbugida3 total languages
IANA registered: 16 October 2005

Example text

සියලු මනුෂ්‍යයෝ නිදහස්ව, ගෞරවයෙන් හා අයිතිවාසිකම්වලින් සමව උපත ලබා ඇත

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Writing Direction
Direction
Left-to-right
RTL
No
Vertical tradition
None / unusual
Source
Unicode CLDR scriptMetadata.txt
LTR value derived from Unicode CLDR script metadata.
Script Properties
Family
Brahmic / Indic
Geographic origin
South Asia
Usage status
Living script
OpenType tag
sinh
Used for the Sinhala language of Sri Lanka, and also for writing Pali texts in Sri Lanka.

Related Scripts

DevaDevanagari (Nagari)GranGrantha

Unicode Blocks

SinhalaU+0D80

1 Unicode block contain Sinhala characters. Browse all Unicode blocks →

The lists below count source attestation, not current or official usage. A language can appear under several scripts. Sources, denominators and limitations.

Language-specific characters and typing resources

A script does not have one alphabet shared by every language. Compare these directly sourced CLDR locale repertoires.

Multiple-source attestation (MAIN)
2

Pali
pli
Sinhala
sin

Single-source attestation (AUX)
1

Sanskrit
sanSingle source