Studies in Sinhala Literacy: Traditional Knowledge as Reflected in Folklore

ācārya akura akuru älapili alliteration Asna awareness bahuśruta bimin bindu Book of Sermons Buddha Buddhist child Colombo consonant daham Disanayaka doctrine English version folklore foot-stroke four letters fruit gata geḍi given guru head-stroke honour idiom ispili ispilla kaļā kana Kataragama ki ki kind knowledge of letters known kombu Lakuna learning literacy literally means literally translated mala pota Mangul māra Maraya's mārayage Martin Wickramasinghe mixed Sinhala alphabet monk Mulkirigala nāki namaki näti noveyi novice-monk numba paddy pair of words Pali palm-leaf papilla parlance phrase pingo load possess proverb pupil referred rice riddle saki dannava Sanskrit Śataka signs Sinhala alphabet Sinhala language Sinhala villager Sinhalese sound Sri Lanka sudu teacher term tiyana liya Total Education traditional Sinhala society transposition transposition of letters transposition technique tree udin University of Colombo usage vahen vowel word mala writing written yana yanu yavahan ន ន