In this book, an attempt has been made to show how the Brahmi characters have evolved over time from cave inscriptions to the modern Sinhala alphabet found in Ola leaf and copper-plate Sannas ...

The finely sculpted swarthy island people he admired share their classic character with the Sinhala alphabet. The beautifully curvy, full-figured Sinhalese letters are eloquent of an ancient ...

It covers the makings of the Sinhala alphabet, the phonetic application of the Sinhala language that influenced the script, the division of the visual formation of the current letters and the ...