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Sinhala language

Sinhala ( SIN-h??-l??, SING-??-l??; Sinhala: ???????????????, si???hala, [??si??????l??]), sometimes called Sinhalese ( SIN-(h)??-LEEZ, SING-(g)??-LEEZ), is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million. Sinhala is also spoken as the first language by other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, totalling about 2 million speakers as of 2001. It is written using the Sinhala script, which is a Brahmic script closely related to the Grantha script of South India. Sinhala is...

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