Sinhala Bible
By:
American Bible
Society
ISBN-10: 9555950008
ISBN-13: 9789555950008
Publisher:
American Bible
Society -
2005-01-01
Format:
Paperback
Sinhalese
or
Sinhala
is the
language
of the
Sinhalese,
the
largest
ethnic
group of
Sri
Lanka.
It
belongs
to the
Indo-Aryan
branch
of the
Indo-European
languages.
Sinhala
is
spoken
by about
19
million
people
in Sri
Lanka,
about 16
million
of whom
are
native
speakers.
It is
one of
the
constitutionally-recognised
official
languages
of Sri
Lanka,
along
with
Tamil.
Sinhala
has its
own
writing
system
(see
Sinhala
alphabet)
which is
an
offspring
of the
Indian
Brahmi
script.
The
oldest
Sinhala
inscriptions
were
written
in the
3rd and
2nd
centuries
BCE; the
oldest
existing
literary
works
date
from the
9th
century
CE.
The
closest
relative
of
Sinhala
is the
language
of the
Maldives,
Dhivehi. |
