A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A SINHALESE SCRIPT PRONUNCIATION | 9 |
Shortening of Long Vowels | 15 |
X | 27 |
Reflexive pronoun indefinite pronouns pronominal | 35 |
Indistinct articulation of vowels spontaneous umlaut | 38 |
28 | 46 |
Uncertain spelling 1 or | 51 |
84 h h optionally dropped | 86 |
Substantives | 92 |
Pl direct case | 98 |
6 | 110 |
Adjectives | 116 |
Ordinal distributive fractional numerals | 123 |
Verb | 133 |
Conjugation I | 139 |
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accent alternative forms AmāV anusvāra auxiliary vowel become bhūta Bl s.v. BLOCH Brahmi Brahmi inscrs cause Ceylon colloquial compounds Conj consonant contracted corresponds to Pk Decl declension derived DhpAGp dialects dropped elephant elision EpZ III Examples female formation frequently Gerund Grammar inflected inflexion inscriptions inscrs insers Instr kāśm kerehi kikili LANEROLLE literature loanwords long vowel masc mäsi mediaeval inscrs mediaeval period MIAVs Middle-Indian MInd modern language muta muva nasal neutr numerous nuvara occurs oṛ origin Pali phonological PISCHEL piyes plural pprt Prakrit preceding preterite pron pronoun pronunciation Proto-Sinhalese period sata SdhRv second syllable short vowel Sinh Sinhalese language spelling spelt Stems ending substantive suffix syllable tree trsl Ts.v Types umlaut Vädda verbs Vijaya visin vowel weak consonant words