Question

Write a short note on Sinhalese

Answer 1

Sinhalese, known natively as Sinhala (Sinhalese:  is the native language of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million.Sinhalese is also spoken as a second language by other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, totalling about four million.
 It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Sinhalese is written using the Sinhalese script, which is one of the Brahmic scripts, a descendant of the ancient Indian Brahmi script closely related to the Kadamba alphabet.