What is "sinhala"

Sinhala or Sinhalese may refer to:

• Of or related to Sri Lanka
• Sinhalese people
• Sinhalese language, one of the three official languages used in Sri Lanka
• Sinhalese alphabet, a writing system for the Sinhalese language
  • Sinhala (Unicode block), a block of Sinhala characters in Unicode
• Sinhala Kingdom, a Lankan kingdom mentioned in the Mahābhārata
• "Sinhala", a track on the 1999 album The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia

Sinhala is a Unicode block containing characters for the Sinhala and Pali languages of Sri Lanka, and is also used for writing Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala allocation is loosely based on the ISCII standard, except that Sinhala contains extra prenasalized consonant letters, leading to inconsistencies with other ISCII-Unicode script allocations.