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Sinhala Language

SAP is the world's leading publisher of Sinhala language textbooks, with books for colloquial and literary, beginning and intermediate language learners.

Copies of our Sinhala Textbooks published in the 20th century are now available Open Access, through the links, below. Hard copies of those books, as well as of our Sinhala textbooks published in the 21st century are still available for purchase, as listed below.

Colloquial Sinhalese (Sinhala) Part 1 by Gordon H. Fairbanks, James W. Gair, and M. W. S. De Silva, and accompanying audio files and dialogs

Colloquial Sinhalese (Sinhala) Part 2 by Gordon H. Fairbanks, James W. Gair, and M. W. S. De Silva, and accompanying audio files and dialogs 

Readings in Colloquial Sinhala by James W. Gair, W. S. Karunatillake, and John Paolillo, and accompanying audio files

Literary Sinhala by James W. Gair and W. S. Karunatilaka

Literary Sinhala Inflected Forms : A Synopsis, with a Transliteration Guide to Sinhala Script by James W. Gair and W. S. Karunatilaka 

Samples of Contemporary Sinhala Prose: With Glossary and Brief Grammatical Notes by James W. Gair and W. S. Karunatilaka 

Cornell University
By Our Faculty
James Gair, W.S. Karunatillake, John Paolillo
By Our Faculty
Cornell University
By Our Faculty
James Gair and W.S. Karunatillake
By Our Faculty