Evolution of the Sinhala Script: Based on the Ancient Sri Lankan Inscriptions by Nimal Herath Bilby Birds have also had great

Birds have also had great mystical significance

a compassion that is able to register contradiction and complexity without passing judgement

There are poems here about love

intrigues and battles

Evolution of the Sinhala Script: Based on the Ancient Sri Lankan Inscriptions by Nimal Herath Bilby Birds have also had greatThe Sinhala language occupies an oral tradition of at least 2,500 years and a written tradition of 2,300 years, making it a unique example of a language with antiquity and unbroken historical continuity. Identified as early Sinhala, it emerged as a blend of the Hela basa spoken by the Vedds and a Prakrit language used by Indo Aryan settlers who arrived on the island around the 6th Century BCE. The Sinhala script in Brhmi characters, believed to have