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Geiger. W., 1937.
Karunatillake. W.S.
Wijeratne P.B.F. 1951.
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Sinhala Grammar.
1969. Historical Phonology of Sinhala:
From Old Indo-Aryan to the 14th Century
A.D. (Cornell University Ph. D. dissertation _
unpublished)
Phonology of the Sinhalese
Inscriptions upto the end of the 10th Century
A.D., in Bulletin of thc School of Oriental and
African Studies, Vol. XI, pp. 586.
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