A work of Sinhala historical linguistics by W.S Karunathilaka, concerned with the origins of words in the Sinhala language and where they came from.
Buyers outside Sri Lanka should note that the text is in Sinhala throughout. There is no English edition or parallel translation here, so reading it requires Sinhala literacy — and, given the subject, a reader comfortable with linguistic terminology in Sinhala will get the most from it. Anyone who cannot read the script will find little to work with.
It comes from Godage International Publishers, an established Colombo house that publishes across scholarly and general subjects in Sinhala and English, and whose list includes a good deal of work on language and philology.
The likely readers are students and teachers of Sinhala language and literature, translators, and researchers in South Asian and Indo-Aryan linguistics who need reference material published in Sri Lanka rather than abroad. It also suits private collections built around Sinhala philology, where books of this kind are often difficult to obtain outside the island.
- Author: W.S Karunathilaka
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 374
- ISBN: 9789553037121
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