Noto Sans Sinhala

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Noto Sans Sinhala is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the Indic Sinhala script.

Noto Sans Sinhala has multiple weights and widths, contains 645 glyphs, 11 OpenType features, and supports 170 characters from 3 Unicode blocks: Sinhala, Basic Latin, General Punctuation.

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Sinhala (සිංහල) is an Indic abugida, written left-to-right. Used since c. 300 CE in Sri Lanka for the Sinhala language (15 million speakers), for Pali and Sanskrit. The “pure” letter set has 20 consonant and 20 vowel letters, and is used for the sounds of the spoken Sinhala. The “mixed” letter set (18 more consonant letters) is used for correct spelling, which often reflect archaic pronunciations, and for non-Sinhala words and languages. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on ScriptSource, Unicode, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, r12a.

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