Singlish Typewriter

Singlish Sinhala Typewriter is a method to typewrite Sinhala text on a computer using an English keyboard in English letters. In other words it is like typewriting Sinhala in English letters. But the final result comes in Sinhala letters.
E.g.
mama = මම
aakaasha = ආකාශ
Because it is a combination of Sinhala and English it is called Singlish. Singlish word is built from taking “Sin” from Sinhala and “glish” from English

Software

There are many software products developed to achieve the Singlish typewriter concept. Some of them come as a separate word processor, while others have made a plug-in or an add-in to many existing word processors. Researches have shown that people does not easily change the word processor they have used for a long time. Therefore the Singlish software those are compatible as a plug-in has been more popular.

Development

Singlish is parallel and independently developed by many programmers. Even there are different features and techniques to get the output, the basic concept is to get the Sinhala letters by typing in English letters (input sequence).Known developers of Singlish supported software. (Also see the History of Sinhala Software)
* Dasith Wijesiriwardena (Singlish for SinhalaSP)
* N.P. Vishva Kumara
* A.D.R Sasanka (Natural Singlish)If you have developed software to support the Singlish concept, please insert your name here

Methodology

The basic methodology of Singlish parsing is to split the input text from English vowels. A single letter in Sinhala when written with English letters ends with a vowel. But this does not occur every time. When the user has entered a text in English letters, the Singlish parser scans through it from the beginning to the end. When it sees a consonant after a vowel it marks between the letters identifying a Sinhala letter. Then it query a reference table to get the Sinhala letter for that set of English letters. The that Sinhala letter is placed to the resulting document

Sinhala Transliterators

* [http://www.sinhalasp.com/singlish.htm SinhalaSP]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/singlishbug/ SinglishBug]
* [http://www.geocities.com/naturalsinglish/singlish.html Natural Singlish]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/singlish-typewriter Singlish Typewriter]