abugida meaning in Sinhala
අබුගිඩා
UK/ˌɑː.buˈɡiː.də/
abugida in Sinhala: අබුගිඩා. In English, abugida means a kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, such that symbols for syllables not including the default vowel are generated by adding a common notation to indicate the vowel that it does include.
Sinhala words for abugida
- අබුගිඩා
English meaning of abugida
- noun A kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, such that symbols for syllables not including the default vowel are generated by adding a common notation to indicate the vowel that it does include.
- noun A kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, typically such that symbols for different syllables are generated by adding, altering or removing the vowel portion, often by applying a diacritic to a stable consonant symbol.
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Questions about abugida in Sinhala
- What is the meaning of abugida in Sinhala?
- Abugida in Sinhala is අබුගිඩා.
- abugida යන්නෙහි සිංහල තේරුම කුමක්ද?
- Abugida: අබුගිඩා.
- What does abugida mean in English?
- Abugida means a kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, such that symbols for syllables not including the default vowel are generated by adding a common notation to indicate the vowel that it does include.
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Sinhala words from Sinhala Wiktionary: abugida (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: abugida (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sinhala words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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