2026 Full paper submitted

Sri Lankan Brahmi Numerals as Precursors to Place-Value Notation: A Multiplicative-Additive Pathway toward Zero

Submitted following acceptance of the abstract for the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics Annual Meeting 2026. The paper examines inscriptional numerals and the pathway toward place value and zero.

Current manuscript

Towards a National Sinhala Corpus: The Role of the Sinhala Dictionary Office and Lessons from Corpus Building in Sri Lanka and Worldwide

A current paper by Harsha Wijayawardhana on corpus development, institutional stewardship and lessons from Sri Lanka’s Sinhala-computing history.

2025

Recent work on Internationalized Domain Names in South and East Asian scripts

Technical writing on script-specific IDN work, Sinhala labels and multilingual Internet infrastructure. Read the locally preserved article →

2009

Numeration in the Sinhala Language

Book presenting research into Sinhala Illakkam, Lith Illakkam and related historical numeral systems.

2007

Kothmale Internet Program to Virtual Village: Recollection of nine years of ICT4D in Sri Lanka

Published in Partners in Progress, the felicitation volume honouring Prof. V. K. Samaranayake. View the verified publication record →

2003

An Introduction to Unicode for Sinhala Characters

V. K. Samaranayake, S. T. Nandasara, J. B. Dissanayake, A. R. Weerasinghe and H. Wijayawardhana; University of Colombo School of Computing.

Language standards

Sinhala romanization for geographical names

Technical and language-technology contribution to Sri Lanka’s national romanization work through the Survey Department, based on ISO 15919 with Sri Lankan modifications and considered by the UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems.