Re: Sinhala naming conventions

From: Harshula <harshula_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:09:20 +1000

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 12:02 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Erkki I Kolehmainen <eik_at_iki.fi> wrote:
> > Why don't you translate the appropriate set of character names for local use?
>
> I'm a Tamilian from Tamil Nadu, India and can't even read more than a
> few letters of the Sinhala script. :-) Harshula and others are Sinhala
> people on this list and might be interested.

I haven't heard any complaints from native Sinhala speakers about the
existing descriptions: e.g.
----------------------------
0D9A ක SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA KAYANNA
= sinhala letter ka
----------------------------

My questions to Michael are simply to better understand his apparently
strong views on this.

cya,
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