Sinhala Bible / New Revised Sinhala Version / Sinhalese The Holy Bible with Deuterocanonicals and subject index / Ceylon

Sinhala Bible / New Revised Sinhala Version / Sinhalese The Holy Bible with Deuterocanonicals and subject index / CeylonSinhala, sometimes referred by alternative spelling Singhalese), also known as Helabasa. Sinhala is the mother tongue of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 15 million. Sinhala is also spoken by other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, totalling about 3 million.Sinhala is actually a Sanskrit term; the corresponding Middle Indic word is S?hala; the actual Sinhala term is Hela (also Elu, Helu). The Sanskrit and the Middle Indic words have as their first element (si?ha and s?ha) the word "lion" in the respective languages.