Sinhalese phonology


 * The presence of so-called prenasalised consonants. A very short homorganic nasal is added before a voiced plosive. The nasal is syllabified with the onset of the following syllable, which means that the moraic weight of the preceding syllable is left unchanged.
 * The pronunciation of unstressed short, which is not written in Sinhala orthography except when initial, is a schwa.