SAP is the world's leading publisher of Sinhala language textbooks, with books for colloquial and literary, beginning and intermediate language learners. SAP also publishes beginning and intermediate Nepali language textbooks, and a Nepali-English glossary.
Nine SAP occasional papers, published between 1971 and 1996, are available as open access PDF downloads. The annually published SAP bulletin is also available open access, as are 40 previous bulletins, which used to be published semi-annually, going back to 1990.
Explores religious life and sensibilities in a group of interconnected working class neighborhoods. Members of Dalit groups, higher caste Hindus, and Muslims living in a Hindu area all comment…
Examines the religious life of Gwalior's Sindhis, Hindus whose families arrived from the far west of the subcontinent after its partition in 1947. Although most maintain a strong Hindu identity…
Examines the changing role of music in a small Gwalior ashram, focusing on the use of film-music styles for prayer songs. The DVD features clips of different musical styles and interviews with…
Spoken Sinhala Grammar is a supplementary handbook of basic colloquial Sinhala grammar for classroom instruction, but also as a resource for reference and for self-study students. This handbook…
This reader is designed for the use of students who are learning intermediate Sinhala language in order to improve their reading skills and reading comprehension. The readings are written in semi-…
The texts in this reader are recognizable as traditional stories from Nepal and from similar stories recounted around the world. This textbook is intended to assist intermediate and advanced students…
This workbook introduces the student to the Sinhala Alphabet, guiding him/her in learning the Sinhala characters and combinations of the sounds as represented by those characters. From the basic…
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A well conceived curriculum that sequentially structures a course that gives students a good grasp over Sinhala, with a knowledge that is appropriate to a first year of…
With digital download.
A well conceived curriculum that sequentially lays out a course that gives students a good hold over Sinhala, with a knowledge that is appropriate to a first year language…
This reader follows Beginning Colloquial Sinhala: An Introductory Sinhala Curriculum by Theresa McGarry and Liyanage Amarakeerthi, from Unit 6 to 40 with readings appropriate to the level of the…