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Sinhala Language

SAP is the world's leading publisher of Sinhala language textbooks(link is external), with books for colloquial and literary, beginning and intermediate language learners.

Copies of our Sinhala Textbooks published in the 20th century are now available Open Access, through the links, below. Hard copies of those books, as well as of our Sinhala textbooks published in the 21st century are still available for purchase, as listed below.

Colloquial Sinhalese (Sinhala) Part 1(link is external) by Gordon H. Fairbanks, James W. Gair, and M. W. S. De Silva, and accompanying audio files (link is external)and dialogs(link is external)

Colloquial Sinhalese (Sinhala) Part 2 (link is external)by Gordon H. Fairbanks, James W. Gair, and M. W. S. De Silva, and accompanying audio files (link is external)and dialogs(link is external) 

Readings in Colloquial Sinhala(link is external) by James W. Gair, W. S. Karunatillake, and John Paolillo, and accompanying audio files(link is external)

Literary Sinhala(link is external) by James W. Gair and W. S. Karunatilaka

Literary Sinhala Inflected Forms : A Synopsis, with a Transliteration Guide to Sinhala Script(link is external) by James W. Gair and W. S. Karunatilaka 

Samples of Contemporary Sinhala Prose: With Glossary and Brief Grammatical Notes (link is external)by James W. Gair and W. S. Karunatilaka 

James Gair, W.S. Karunatillake, John Paolillo
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Cornell University
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Cornell University
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James Gair and W.S. Karunatillake
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