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Phonotactics

Native Sinhalese words are limited in syllable structure to (C)V(C), V̄, and CV̄(C), where V is a short vowel, V̄ is a long vowel, and C is a consonant. Exceptions exist for the marginal segment CC. Prenasalised plosives are restricted to occurring intervocalically, and cannot end a syllable. Much more complicated consonant clusters are allowed in loan words, particularly from Sanskrit and English, an example being ප්රශ්නය praśnaya ("question"). Words cannot end in nasals other than /ŋ/. Because of historical loss of the fricative /h/ in the suffix /-hu/, /-u/ at the end of a word behaves as its own syllable.