Native Phonetic Inventory: sinhalese

These are the sounds found in most native sinhalese dialects: There are also sounds not on the chart, shown below.

other sounds: /t/, /d/, /s/ are dentalized; long vowels; in loan words: bilabial and postalveolar fricatives, schwa, and palatal and velar nasals.

Adapted from: Maddieson, I. (1984).