Elu

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Eḷu, also Hela or Helu, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language or Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE. It is ancestral to the Sinhalese and Dhivehi languages. R. C. Childers, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, states: The Pali scholar Thomas William Rhys Davids refers to Eḷu as "the Prakrit of Ceylon". The Hela Havula are a modern Sri Lankan literary organization that advocate the use of Eḷu terms over Sanskritisms. Eḷu is often referred to by modern Sinhalese as amisra, Sanskrit and Sinhalese term for "unmixed". rdf:langString
Bahasa Eḷu, juga dieja sebagai bahasa Helu, adalah (Prakerta) yang dituturkan pada abad ke-3 SM. Elu merupakan leluhur dari bahasa Sinhala dan Divehi. Ahli bahasa Pali bernama menyebut Eḷu sebagai "bahasa Prakerta Ceylon". adalah organisasi sastra Sri Lanka modern yang menganjurkan penggunaan istilah Eḷu dibanding istilah dari bahasa Sanskerta. Eḷu sering disebut oleh penutur-penutur Sinhala modern sebagai Amisra, yang berarti "tidak tercampur". rdf:langString
rdf:langString Elu
rdf:langString Bahasa Elu
rdf:langString Helu
rdf:langString Eḷu
rdf:langString Eḷu
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rdf:langString Evolved into Sinhalese and Dhivehi
rdf:langString Eḷu, also Hela or Helu, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language or Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE. It is 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-Saxon...The name Elu is no other than Sinhala much succeeded, standing for an older form, Hĕla or Hĕlu, which occurs in some ancient works, and this again for a still older, Sĕla, which brings us back to the Pali Sîhala. The Pali scholar Thomas William Rhys Davids refers to Eḷu as "the Prakrit of Ceylon". The Hela Havula are a modern Sri Lankan literary organization that advocate the use of Eḷu terms over Sanskritisms. Eḷu is often referred to by modern Sinhalese as amisra, Sanskrit and Sinhalese term for "unmixed". A feature of Eḷu is its preference for short vowels, loss of aspiration and the reduction of compound consonants found frequently in other Prakrits such as Pali.
rdf:langString Bahasa Eḷu, juga dieja sebagai bahasa Helu, adalah (Prakerta) yang dituturkan pada abad ke-3 SM. Elu merupakan leluhur dari bahasa Sinhala dan Divehi. Ahli bahasa Pali bernama menyebut Eḷu sebagai "bahasa Prakerta Ceylon". adalah organisasi sastra Sri Lanka modern yang menganjurkan penggunaan istilah Eḷu dibanding istilah dari bahasa Sanskerta. Eḷu sering disebut oleh penutur-penutur Sinhala modern sebagai Amisra, yang berarti "tidak tercampur". Fitur yang khas dari bahasa Eḷu adalah pemakaian vokal pendek, kehilangan aspirasi dan pengurangan konsonan majemuk yang sering ditemukan dalam bahasa Prakerta lain seperti Pali.
rdf:langString Indo-European
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rdf:langString historical
rdf:langString Helu
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