and visualize how it is written.
Script Notes: How this chart is organized
The modern standard Sinhala alphabet follows the
National Institute of Education (NIE)
— ජාතික අධ්යාපන ආයතන හෝඩිය,
which is used in contemporary Sri Lankan education.
Sinhala has historically been taught and classified in multiple
grammatical traditions. Using the variant controls above,
you can filter letter visibility according to the following systems:
- සිදත් සඟරා හෝඩිය (Sidat San̆garā Hōḍiya) — classical grammatical tradition
- අමිශ්ර සිංහල හෝඩිය (Amiśra Siṁhala Hōḍiya) — core Sinhala sounds
- මිශ්ර සිංහල හෝඩිය (Miśra Siṁhala Hōḍiya) — expanded sounds influenced
by Pali & Sanskrit
Typography: The Sinhala alphabet letters on this page are displayed using the
Hodipotha
typeface — a Unicode Sinhala font developed in 2014 for primary
reading and writing education following a request by the
National Education Commission (NEC)
to the Information and Communication
Technology Agency (ICTA).
All other pages use
Noto Sans Sinhala
for better
readability and consistency.