A Sinhala alphabet book — a hōdiya — made for very young children taking their first steps in the language. It is an illustrated primer: pictures paired with letters, beginning with අ and ආ and teaching each one correctly from the start.
The text is entirely in Sinhala. There is no English translation and no transliteration, so this is a book for households where Sinhala is spoken or taught, or for a parent or teacher who reads the script and wants a first alphabet book to put in a child's hands. Overseas families raising children in Sinhala often look for exactly this kind of early reader, which is harder to find outside Sri Lanka than it is in Colombo.
It is published by M. D. Gunasena & Co., a long-established Colombo publishing house whose school and children's titles are familiar in Sri Lankan classrooms and homes. The format is the conventional one for the genre: a letter, an image, a word, worked through the alphabet in order.
Suitable as a gift for a child about to start learning to read Sinhala, and as a straightforward teaching aid for anyone introducing the script letter by letter.
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552101007
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