Sumihiri Transliteration Scheme
Vowels
Independent |
අ |
ආ |
ඇ |
ඈ |
ඉ |
ඊ |
උ |
ඌ |
ඍ |
ඎ |
ඏ |
ඐ |
එ |
ඒ |
ඓ |
ඔ |
ඕ |
ඖ |
|
ං |
ඃ |
a |
aa |
z |
zz |
i |
ii |
u |
uu |
Ru/sRu |
Ruu/sRuu |
(?) |
(?) |
E |
ee |
ai |
o |
oo |
au |
|
NG |
H |
Dependent |
ක |
කා |
කැ |
කෑ |
කි |
කී |
කු |
කූ |
කෘ |
කෲ |
කෟ |
කෳ |
කෙ |
කේ |
කෛ |
කො |
කෝ |
කෞ |
ක් |
කං |
කඃ |
ka |
kaa |
kz |
kzz |
ki |
kii |
ku |
kuu |
kRu |
kRuu |
(?) |
(?) |
kE |
kee |
kai |
ko |
koo |
kau |
k |
kaNG |
kaH |
Consonants
Voiceless |
Voiced |
Nasal |
Nasalised Voiced |
Velar |
ක |
ඛ |
ග |
ඝ |
ඞ |
ඟ |
ka |
Ka |
ga |
Ga |
Z |
Nga |
Palatal |
ච |
ඡ |
ජ |
ඣ |
ඤ |
ඦ |
cha |
Cha |
ja |
Ja |
qa |
(?) |
Alveolar |
ට |
ඨ |
ඩ |
ඪ |
ණ |
ඬ |
ta |
Ta |
da |
Da |
Na |
Nda |
Dental |
ත |
ථ |
ද |
ධ |
න |
ඳ |
tha |
Tha |
dha |
Dha |
na |
Ndha |
Bilabilal |
ප |
ඵ |
බ |
භ |
ම |
ඹ |
pa |
Pa |
ba |
Ba |
ma |
Mba |
Glides, Fricatives, etc |
ය |
ර |
ල |
ව |
ශ |
ෂ |
ස |
හ |
ළ |
ෆ |
ya |
ra |
la |
wa |
sha |
Sha |
sa |
ha |
La |
fa |
Consonant Clusters
ඥ |
ක්ර |
ක්ය |
ර්ක |
ග්න |
ක්ව |
ක්ෂ |
න්ධ |
න්ථ |
න්ද |
ත්ථ |
GNa |
kRa |
kYa |
Rka |
(?) |
(?) |
x |
(?) |
(?) |
(?) |
(?) |
Objective
Sumihiri Transliteration Scheme is only provided here as an
easily accessible reference.
"Sumihiri reserves the single 'e' to indicate the 'ə' phonetic sound
as it makes it easier to read text written in sumihiri. As a result, for
example, 'ka' and 'ke' would correspond to the same sinhala letter
whereas the two are pronounced differently. So either one will work
when writing. On the other hand, as the single 'e' has been used for
this purpose, in order to represent the sound of 'e' in, say 'mess',
sumihiri uses the letter 'E'. However, for the convenience in
writing, the prolonged sound of 'E' is still obtained by writing 'ee'."
- Camillus Jayewardena
References