අ, n. The first letter of the Alphabet. It varies bightly in pronunciation, depending sometimes on the meaning or derivation and sometimes on the consonants with which it is combined. It is (1) the clear, distinct sound obtained by shortening ආ ah; (2) the sound of a in negative or miracle. In initial syllables the sound is generally the first of these; the second arises from the dropping of the voice in the unaccented syllables. It is written only when it is the initial letter of a word, but is pronounced after every consonant to which no other vowel is attached, or where it is not suppressed by the sign ්, as කරනවා, karanavā, the final vowel අ, which is long, alone being written;කරන් karan, the vowel අ after න being suppressed by the sign ්.

උච්චාරණය, n. utterance, articulation, enunciation, expression, pronunciation, ශබ්ද කිරීම.

ඥ, A letter compounded of the above and of ජ,= ජ්ඤ, but the ජ්is often dropped in or dianry pronunciation when it occurs as the inuitial letter of a word.

ද, n. The third of the dental letters. Its sound is like that of d heard in the Irish pronunciation of such words as drink, drip, drop &c.

වි·වාරය, n. broad pronunciation, brogue. E. S.

වේදාංගය, n. (වේද අංගය), branch of knowledge or of the Veda; there are six such regarded as subordinate parts of the Veda, viz. ශික්‍ෂා ශාස්ත්‍රය, learning, sp. pronunciation; කල්ප ශාස්ත්‍රය, religious ceremonies; ව්‍යාකරණ ශා ස්ත්‍රය, grammar; ඡන්‍දශ්ශාස්ත්‍රය, prosody; ජෝතිශ්‍ය ශාස්ත්‍රය, astronomy, and නිරුක්ති ශාස්ත්‍රය, glossography or science of explanation.

සුඛෝච්චාරණය, n. pleasant or proper pronunciation, euphony, orthoepy, මිහිරි or හරි උච්චාරණය.

ළ, n. cerebral L. It does not now differ in pronunciation from the dental ල. L.