Unknown to the media and most in Sri Lanka the Sinhala language has won international recognition. More precisely, it is the Sinhala script rather than the language itself that has been named as one ...

Sinhala script had derived from Brahmi script that had given rise to almost all North and South Indian scripts. In the older tradition, Brahmi has been classified into two subgroups namely Northern ...

Nimal Herath, an engineer by profession, has now written a book on ‘epigraphy’, the study of inscriptions. How he moved from engineering to archaeology, particularly to paleography, is a matter of ...

Abstract: Sinhala script is categorized as a segmental writing system and therefore consonant-vowel sequences are identified as a unit. Depending on the vowel and the consonant combination, the ...

Sinhala and Tamil are categorised under complex scripts at the time Unicode technology was created to render them on computers. Sinhala had taken a long and arduous computerisation journey, in the ...

The aim of this project was to experiment creating a basic optical character recognition (OCR) system that can take images of printed Sinhalese characters, Sinhala being the national language of Sri ...

The Sinhala Font Testing Page (Beta) is a tool primarily intended for our internal font testing purposes. But is is can be used by type designers and independent foundries to 'Drag and Drop' their ...

Abstract: There are many documents in Srilanka where a single document page may contain Sinhala, Tamil and English texts. For OCR development of such a document page, it is better to identify ...

The BBC News Sinhala channel on YouTube delivers a diverse range of content including interviews, explainers and short videos about issues relevant to Sinhala-speaking audiences, from politics and ...