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The lexicography of sinhala

The lexicography of Sinhala Sandagomi Coperahewa Contents Introduction Discussion Historical overview of ancient Sinhala lexicography Development of modern Sinhala lexicography Sinhala as of ?cial language and the need for practical dictionaries The current status of Sinhala lexicographical work References Abstract This chapter begins with an introduction to Sinhala an Indo-Aryan and South Asian language spoken by the Sinhalese ?? the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka The historical overview of ancient Sinhala lexicography provides a summary of oldest Sinhala lexicons nigha ? ?u and the impact of Pali and Sanskrit lexicographical compilations on Sinhala The sixteenth century saw the initial impact of European colonial power on Sri Lanka and the subsequent periods witnessed the compilation of dictionaries in the European tradition in Sri Lanka The linguistic endeavors of Dutch and British missionaries led to a variety of lexicographical works in Sinhala The year marked the beginning of a governmentsponsored Sinhala dictionary project which aimed to compile an etymological dictionary of Sinhala under the direction of the German Indologist Professor Wilhelm Geiger With the expansion of linguistic activity in Sinhala and the demand for Sinhala as an of ?cial language in the country there was a need for practical dictionaries in the s to s During this period several attempts were made to produce Sinhala ?? Sinhala and English ?? Sinhala dictionaries for use in schools and government departments The government Sinhala dictionary project dragged on for years and was ?nally completed in The present S Coperahewa Department of Sinhala University of Colombo Colombo Sri Lanka e-mail sandagomi sinh cmb ac lk ? Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany part of Springer Nature P Hanks G -M de Schryver eds International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography https doi org - - - - - C S Coperahewa century has witnessed the publication of many bilingual dictionaries and specialist dictionaries for many domains Since the s computer technology has had a tremendous impact on Sinhala lexicography and dictionaries have become available both in CD-ROM format and online New projects such as the building of Sinhala corpora and software tools for language analysis and lexicography continue to be important developments for current Sinhala lexicography Introduction Sinhala commonly referred to in earlier times as Sinhalese Singhalese is the language spoken by the Sinhalese the largest ethnic group of the island of Sri Lanka earlier known as Ceylon Today it is one of the two of ?cial languages of the island the other being Tamil which is also spoken in southern India mainly in Tamil Nadu Sinhala is an Indo-Aryan language and has its roots in classical Indian languages but is spoken nowhere else in the subcontinent It is therefore related to modern North Indian languages such as Hindi Bengali Gujarati Marathi Punjabi and Kashmiri The Maldivian language Dhivehi Divehi is an o ?shoot of Sinhala but diverged from the latter around the tenth century AD Dhivehi and Sinhala developed in a di ?erent way to the other Indo-Aryan languages because of their separation by about km