Freelang Sinhala-English dictionary

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Mama oyata aadareyi... doesn't it sound sweet? This "I love you" in Sinhalese. Click here for other common expressions that we translated in Sinhalese and many other languages.

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The Sinhala language of Sri Lanka

Sinhala is the mother tongue of the Sinhalese people who live in Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese make up the largest mother tongue group in Sri Lanka. Approximately 16 million people use Sinhala as a first language and another 3 million people in Sri Lanka use Sinhala as a second language. Sinhala is one of the official languages in Sri Lanka and in India as a whole. Sinhala has been used together with the Pali language in the development of Buddhist literature. The Sinhala language [...]

Sinhala, or Sinhalese or Singhalese, is the official language of Sri Lanka, along with Tamil. It is spoken by about 19 million people. Sinhala has its own writing system, which evolved from the Brahmi script. It is an Indo-Aryan language.

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Word list information

This dictionary was made by Renato B. Figueiredo.

Sinhala > English: 950 words
English > Sinhala: 827 words

Last update: March 21, 2014
First upload: September 8, 2008

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Sinhala on the web

Omniglot has a page describing the origin and features of the Sinhala alphabet.

The Sinhala language page is a directory of websites related to Sinhala language and culture. For online Sinhalese newspapers and media, you can browse the Daily Divaina and BBC Sinhala, the latest BBC World News in Sinhala.