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Throughout Wikipedia, the pronunciation of words is indicated using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The following tables list the IPA symbols used for Sinhala words and pronunciations. Please note that several of these symbols are used in ways that are specific to Wikipedia, and differ from those used by dictionaries.

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Literary Sinhala key
Sinhala is diglossic, with two distinct registers: spoken and literary. Literary Sinhala is an archaic form of the language that is still used in highly formal contexts, as well as in some written and printed material. Certain letters that represent the same sound in spoken Sinhala represent distinct sounds in literary Sinhala. In particular, aspiration exists as a distinction in literary, but not spoken, Sinhala. Additional symbols are used to represent sounds that are distinct in other languages rendered with the script (such as Sanskrit and Pali) but are pronounced as other sounds in both spoken and literary Sinhala.