SINHALA ENGLISH SCHOOL DICTINARY

This is a book about language and thought: how the Sinhalese think and how they say it in their own language, Sinhala. It is about the way they look at beings and things and how they describe them in distinctive ways. Beings – include human beings, divine beings and animals. ‘Things’ are both tangible and intangible. This book is a kind of dictionary, a book that gives a list of words in alphabetical order. It differs, however, from other kinds of dictionaries in that it lists…..