Editing Sinhala script (section)

{{short description|Abugida writing system}}
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{{Infobox writing system
| name        = Sinhalese script
| altname     = {{lang|si|සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව}}<br/>''Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāwa''
| type        = [[Abugida]]
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| languages   = [[Sinhala language|Sinhalese]], [[Pali]], [[Sanskrit]]
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| time        = 8th century CE – present<ref name=diringer/>
| fam1        = [[Egyptian hieroglyphs|Egyptian]]
| fam2        = [[Proto-Sinaitic]]
| fam3        = [[Phoenician alphabet|Phoenician]]
| fam4        = [[Aramaic alphabet|Aramaic]]
| fam5        = [[Brahmi script|Brahmi]]<ref>Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography, R. Malatesha Joshi, Catherine McBride(2019),p.28</ref>{{sfnp|Daniels|1996|p=408}}
| fam6        = [[Tamil-Brahmi]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Salomon |first1=Richard |title=Indian Epigraphy |date=1998 |page=40}}</ref>
| fam7        = [[Pallava script|Pallava]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mirza |first1=Amna |last2=Gottardo |first2=Alexandra |title=Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography |date=2019 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-05977-4|pages=329–351 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-05977-4_17 |access-date=22 July 2024 |language=en |chapter=Learning to Read in Their Heritage Language: Hindi-English Speaking Children Reading Two Different Orthographies|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-05977-4_17 }}</ref>
| fam8        = [[Grantha script|Grantha]]<ref name=diringer>{{cite book |last1=Diringer |first1=David |title=Alphabet a key to the history of mankind |date=1948 |page=389}}</ref><ref name="cardona"/>
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| children    = 
| sample      = සිංහල in Noto Serif Sinhala Black.svg
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| unicode     = {{ublist |class=nowrap |[https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D80.pdf U+0D80–U+0DFF] {{smaller|Sinhala}} |[https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U111E0.pdf U+111E0–U+111FF] {{smaller|Sinhala Archaic Numbers}}}}
| iso15924    = Sinh
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{{Contains special characters|Indic}}
{{Brahmic}}

The '''Sinhalese script''' ({{langx|si|සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව|Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāwa}}), also known as '''Sinhala script''', is a [[writing system]] used by the [[Sinhalese people]] and most [[Sri Lankans]] in [[Sri Lanka]] and elsewhere to write the [[Sinhala language|Sinhalese language]] as well as the [[liturgical language]]s [[Pali]] and [[Sanskrit]].{{sfnp|Daniels|1996|p=408}} The Sinhalese Akṣara Mālāva, one of the [[Brahmic scripts]], is a descendant of the [[Ancient India]]n [[Brahmi script]]. It is thought to be derived from [[Grantha script]].<ref name="masica">{{cite book |last1=Masica |first1=Colin P. |title=The Indo-Aryan Languages |date=1993 |page=143}}</ref><ref name="diringer" /><ref name=":0" />