Sinhala language (English Wikipedia)
Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Sinhala language" in English language version.
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ancientscripts.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Ancient Scripts: Sinhala". www.ancientscripts.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
archive.org (Global: 6th place; English: 6th place)
- Geiger 1938, p. 68 Geiger, Wilhelm (1938). A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language. Colombo.
- Geiger 1938, p. 79 Geiger, Wilhelm (1938). A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language. Colombo.
- James W Gair - Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan isolate (1996) https://archive.org/details/sinhala-an-indo-aryan-isolate-prof.-james-w.-gair pp.5-11
books.google.com (Global: 3rd place; English: 3rd place)
- Jayarajan, Paul M. (1 January 1976). History of the Evolution of the Sinhala Alphabet. Colombo Apothecaries' Company, Limited.
- The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia. Vol. 20. Parbury, Allen, and Company. 1836. p. 30.
busuu.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
blog.busuu.com
- Kristalinskaya, Maria (24 March 2011). "Patuá, The Sweet Language of Macau". Busuu Blog. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
cambridge.org (Global: 305th place; English: 264th place)
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- Gombrich, Richard (1970). "UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Sinhalese Series". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 34 (3). London: George Allen and Unwin Limited: 623–624. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00128812.
columbia.edu (Global: 488th place; English: 374th place)
- Wasala, Asanka; Gamage, Kumudu (1996). Research Report on Phonetics and Phonology of Sinhala (PDF). Working Papers 2004-2007 (Technical report). Language Technology Research Laboratory, University of Colombo School of Computing. pp. 473–484.
cornell.edu (Global: 332nd place; English: 246th place)
conf.ling.cornell.edu
- Riehl, Anastasia (January 2008). "NC type combination patterns". The Phonology and Phonetics of Nasal Obstruent Sequences (PDF) (PhD thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
dickinson.edu (Global: low place; English: 8,594th place)
blogs.dickinson.edu
- Gananath Obeyesekere, "Buddhism, ethnicity and Identity: A problem of Buddhist History", in Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 10, (2003): 46.
doi.org (Global: 2nd place; English: 2nd place)
- Paolillo, John C. (1997). "Sinhala Diglossia: Discrete or Continuous Variation?". Language in Society. 26 (2): 269–296. doi:10.1017/S0047404500020935. ISSN 0047-4045. JSTOR 4168764. S2CID 144123299.
- Gombrich, Richard (1970). "UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Sinhalese Series". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 34 (3). London: George Allen and Unwin Limited: 623–624. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00128812.
- Tuttle, Edwin H. "Dravidian Researches". The American Journal of Philology, vol. 50, no. 2, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1929, pp. 138–55, doi:10.2307/290412.
- Paolillo, John C. (1997). "Sinhala Diglossia: Discrete or Continuous Variation?". Language in Society. 26 (2): 269–296. doi:10.1017/S0047404500020935. ISSN 0047-4045. JSTOR 4168764. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- Paolillo, John C. (2000). "Formalizing Formality: An Analysis of Register Variation in Sinhala". Journal of Linguistics. 36 (2): 215–259. doi:10.1017/S0022226700008148. ISSN 0022-2267. JSTOR 4176592. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
ethnologue.com (Global: 339th place; English: 388th place)
- Sinhala language at Ethnologue (28th ed., 2025)
jstor.org (Global: 26th place; English: 20th place)
- Paolillo, John C. (1997). "Sinhala Diglossia: Discrete or Continuous Variation?". Language in Society. 26 (2): 269–296. doi:10.1017/S0047404500020935. ISSN 0047-4045. JSTOR 4168764. S2CID 144123299.
- Gair, James W. (1968). "Sinhalese Diglossia". Anthropological Linguistics. 10 (8): 1–15. ISSN 0003-5483. JSTOR 30029181.
- Geiger, Wilhelm. "Chronological Summary of the Development of the Sinhalese Language". Zeitschrift Für Vergleichende Sprachforschung Auf Dem Gebiete Der Indogermanischen Sprachen 76, no. 1/2 (1959): 52–59. JSTOR 40848039.
- Shahidullah, Muhammad. "The Origin of the Sinhalesé Language". The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 8, no. 1 (1962): 108–11. JSTOR 45377492.
- Paolillo, John C. (1997). "Sinhala Diglossia: Discrete or Continuous Variation?". Language in Society. 26 (2): 269–296. doi:10.1017/S0047404500020935. ISSN 0047-4045. JSTOR 4168764. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- Paolillo, John C. (2000). "Formalizing Formality: An Analysis of Register Variation in Sinhala". Journal of Linguistics. 36 (2): 215–259. doi:10.1017/S0022226700008148. ISSN 0022-2267. JSTOR 4176592. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- Feinstein, Mark (1979). "Prenasalization and Syllable Structure". Linguistic Inquiry. 10 (2): 245–278. JSTOR 4178108. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
lankalibrary.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Sigiri Graffiti: poetry on the mirror-wall". Lanka Library. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- "Sri Lanka: A Short History of Sinhala Language". WWW Virtual Library Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
mahavamsa.org (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "The Coming of Vijaya". The Mahavamsa. 8 October 2011.
- "The Consecrating of Vijaya - the island of Lanka - Kuvani". The Mahavamsa. 8 October 2011. Archived from the original on 20 June 2023.
semanticscholar.org (Global: 11th place; English: 8th place)
api.semanticscholar.org
statistics.gov.lk (Global: 6,041st place; English: 4,861st place)
- "Census of Population and Housing 2011". www.statistics.gov.lk. Archived from the original on 28 April 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- "Census of Population and Housing 2001" (PDF). Statistics.gov.lk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
tamilnet.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- TamilNet, Know the Etymology: 334, Place Name of the Day: 23 March 2014, "Kola-munna, Anguna-kola-pelessa".
uchicago.edu (Global: 230th place; English: 214th place)
dsal.uchicago.edu
- University of Madras Tamil Lexicon, "குழை kuḻai".
- "kal (kaṟ-, kaṉ-)". A Dravidian Etymology Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022.
uvic.ca (Global: 7,619th place; English: 4,828th place)
dspace.library.uvic.ca
- Parawahera, Nimal Pannakitti (25 April 1990). Phonology and Morphology of Modern Sinhala (PhD thesis). University of Victoria. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
web.archive.org (Global: 1st place; English: 1st place)
- "Census of Population and Housing 2011". www.statistics.gov.lk. Archived from the original on 28 April 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- "Census of Population and Housing 2001" (PDF). Statistics.gov.lk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
- "The Consecrating of Vijaya - the island of Lanka - Kuvani". The Mahavamsa. 8 October 2011. Archived from the original on 20 June 2023.
- "Sri Lanka: A Short History of Sinhala Language". WWW Virtual Library Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
- "kal (kaṟ-, kaṉ-)". A Dravidian Etymology Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022.
- "Ancient Scripts: Sinhala". www.ancientscripts.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
worldcat.org (Global: 5th place; English: 5th place)
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- Paolillo, John C. (1997). "Sinhala Diglossia: Discrete or Continuous Variation?". Language in Society. 26 (2): 269–296. doi:10.1017/S0047404500020935. ISSN 0047-4045. JSTOR 4168764. S2CID 144123299.
- Gair, James W. (1968). "Sinhalese Diglossia". Anthropological Linguistics. 10 (8): 1–15. ISSN 0003-5483. JSTOR 30029181.
- Paolillo, John C. (1997). "Sinhala Diglossia: Discrete or Continuous Variation?". Language in Society. 26 (2): 269–296. doi:10.1017/S0047404500020935. ISSN 0047-4045. JSTOR 4168764. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- Paolillo, John C. (2000). "Formalizing Formality: An Analysis of Register Variation in Sinhala". Journal of Linguistics. 36 (2): 215–259. doi:10.1017/S0022226700008148. ISSN 0022-2267. JSTOR 4176592. Retrieved 18 August 2024.