Editing Sinhala script (section)

==Relation to other scripts==
;Similarities
Sinhala is one of the [[Brahmic family|Brahmic scripts]], and thus shares many similarities with other members of the family, such as [[Grantha script|Grantha]], [[Kannada]], [[Malayalam]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]], [[Tamil script]] and [[Devanāgarī]]. As a general example, {{IPA|/a/}} is the inherent vowel in all these scripts (except Devanagari, where it is /ə/).{{sfnp|Daniels|1996|p=408}} Other similarities include the diacritic for {{angle bracket|ai}}, which resembles a doubled {{angle bracket|e}} in all scripts and the diacritic for {{angle bracket|au}} which is composed of preceding {{angle bracket|e}} and following {{angle bracket|ḷ}}.

Likewise, the combination of the diacritics for {{angle bracket|e}} and {{angle bracket|ā}} yields {{angle bracket|o}} in all these scripts.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Comparison of independent and diacritic vowels
|-
! Script 
!e
!ai
!au
!ā
!o
|-class=letters-pink
! Sinhala 
|{{letter|l=si|ch1=එ|ch2= ෙ}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch1=ඓ|ch2=ෛ}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch1=ඖ|ch2=ෞ}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch1=ආ|ch2= ා}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch1=ඔ| ch2=ො}}
|-class=letters-red
! [[Grantha alphabet|Tamil Grantha]]
|{{letter|ch1=𑌏|ch2=𑍇}}
|{{letter|ch1=𑌐|ch2=𑍈}}
|{{letter|ch1=𑌔|ch2=𑍌}}
|{{letter|ch1=𑌆|ch2=𑌾}}
|{{letter|ch1=𑌓|ch2=𑍋}}
|-class=letters-orange
! [[Malayalam alphabet|Malayalam]] 
|{{letter|ch1=എ|ch2= െ}}
|{{letter|ch1=ഐ|ch2=ൈ}}
|{{letter|ch1=ഔ|ch2=ൗ}}
|{{letter|ch1=ആ|ch2=ാ}}
|{{letter|ch1=ഒ|ch2=ൊ}}
|-class=letters-gold
! [[Tamil alphabet|Tamil]]
|{{letter|ch1=எ|ch2=◌ெ}}
|{{letter|ch1=ஐ|ch2=◌ை◌}}
|{{letter|ch1=ஔ|ch2=◌ௌ}}
|{{letter|ch1=ஆ|ch2=◌ா}}
|{{letter|ch1=ஒ|ch2=ொ}}
|-class=letters-green
! [[Bengali alphabet|Bengali]]
|{{letter|ch1=এ|ch2=ে}} 
|{{letter|ch1=ঐ|ch2=ৈ}}
|{{letter|ch1=ঔ|ch2=ৌ}}
|{{letter|ch1=আ|ch2=া}}
|{{letter|ch1=ও|ch2=ো}}
|-class=letters-teal
![[Odia script|Odia]]
|{{letter|ch1=ଏ|ch2=◌େ}}
|{{letter|ch1=ଐ|ch2=ୈ}}
|{{letter|ch1=ଔ|ch2=◌ୌ}}
|{{letter|ch1=ଆ|ch2=◌ା}}
|{{letter|ch1=ଓ|ch2=ୋ}}
|-class=letters-blue
![[Devanagari alphabet|Dēvanāgarī]] 
|{{letter|ch1=ए|ch2=◌े}}
|{{letter|ch1=ऐ|ch2=◌ै}}
|{{letter|ch1=औ|ch2=◌ौ}}
|{{letter|ch1=आ|ch2=◌ा}}
|{{letter|ch1=ओ|ch2=◌ो}}
|}

;Differences
Sinhala alphabet differs from other Indo-Aryan alphabets in that it contains a pair of vowel sounds (U+0DD0 and U+0DD1 in the proposed Unicode Standard) that are unique to it. These are the two vowel sounds that are similar to the two vowel sounds that occur at the beginning of the English words ''at'' (ඇ) and ''ant'' (ඈ).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.isoc.org/inet97/proceedings/E1/E1_3.HTM|title=Trilingual Sinhala-Tamil-English National Web Site of Sri Lanka|date=3 January 2016}}</ref>