Re: [sinhala-technical] History of Aeyanna and Aeeyanna in Sinhala

[Harshula <har...@gm...>]

Hi Guys,

Anyone have an authoritative answer to Suresh's question?

I had a look at my books of inscriptions and none of them showed the
evolution of ඇ and ඈ.

cya,
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On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 15:10 -0400, Suresh Kolichala wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am trying to understand the history of letters AEYANNA(ඇ) and AEEYANNA (ඈ)
> in Sinhala script. I am interested as to when these symbols were introduced
> into Sinhala script. Was it done with the advent of printing? Was it done
> by British misionaries? Some of the south Indian languages have this sound
> as a phoneme, but no attempt was made to introduce a new symbols for these
> sounds.
> 
> I appreciate your response.
> 
> Regards,
> Suresh.