ENGLISH

Sinhala

By Dileep Chandralal

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2010
ISBN
9027238154, 9789027238153
LCC
PK2812 .C47 2010
Google Books ID
ii5MD9M_t8IC
Open Library ID
OL23936237M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15906398 bytes)
Series
London Oriental and African Language Library
Pages
314\314
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00
Языки и языкознание;Сингальский язык

Description

Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Although the earliest surviving literature in Sinhala dates from the 8th century A.D. its written tradition has traced a longer path of more than 2000 years.Among the major topics covered in this volume are the writing system, phonology, morphology, grammatical constructions and discourse and pragmatic aspects of Sinhala. Written in a clear and lucid style, the book presents a rich sampling of the data and serves a useful typological reference. Therefore this is required reading for not only linguists and Sinhala specialists but also to anyone interested in language, thought, and culture.

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