Elu
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title:
Elu
text:
Eḷa, also Elu, Hela or Helu Prakrit, was a Middle Indo-Aryan language or Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE, that was used in Sri Lanka. It was ancestral to the Sinhalese and Dhivehi languages. R. C. Childers, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, states: [Elu] is the name by which is known an ancient form of the Sinhala language from which the modern vernacular of Ceylon is immediately received, and to which the latter bears is of the same relation that the English of today bears to Anglo-Sa
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description:
3rd century BCE Sri Lankan language; ancestor of Sinhalese and Dhivehi
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elu
date created:
2006-07-16T04:59:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T14:10:06Z
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