Editing Sinhala script (section)

====Consonant conjuncts====
[[Image:ශ්‍රී (Śrī) in Sinhala with components marked.svg|thumb|right|The [[glyph]] for ''[[shri|śrī]]'', which is composed of the letter ''ś'' with a ligature indicating the ''r'' below and the vowel  ''ī'' marked above. ]]

Certain combinations of letters are written with [[Typographic ligature|ligatures]]. Some graphical conventions include a {{angbr|ර}} ''ra'' following a consonant represented by and inverted arch {{angbr|◌්{{zwj}}ර}} (rakāransaya), a {{angbr|ර}} ''r'' preceding a consonant by a loop above {{angbr|ර්{{zwj}}◌}} (rēpaya), and a {{angbr|ය}}, ''ya'' following a consonant as a half of a ''ya'' {{angbr|්{{zwj}}ය}} on the right (yansaya.{{sfn|Fairbanks|Gair|Silva|1968|p=109}} Some very frequent combinations can be written in one stroke, like {{angbr|ද්{{zwj}}ධ}}, ''ddha'', {{angbr|ක්‍ව}}, ''kwa'' or {{angbr|ක්‍ෂ}}, ''kś''.{{sfnp|Karunatillake|2004|p=xxxi}}{{sfnp|Matzel|1983|p=8}}{{sfnp|Jayawardena-Moser|2004|p=12}}

Touching letters were used in ancient scriptures but are not used in modern Sinhala. Vowels may be attached to any of the ligatures formed, attaching to the rightmost part of the glyph except for vowels that use the ''kombuva'', where the ''kombuva'' is written before the ligature or cluster and the remainder of the vowel, if any, is attached to the rightmost part.

{| class="wikitable letters-black"
|+ Examples of combined letters 
|-
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ක්‍ය|top=ක්ය|ipa=/kja/|note=''yansaya''}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ක‍්‍යො|top=ක්යො|ipa=/kjo/|note=''yansaya''}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ග්‍ය|top=ග්ය|ipa=/ɡja/|note=''yansaya''}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ක්‍ර|top=ක්ර |ipa=/kra/|note=''rakāransaya''}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ග්‍ර|top=ග්ර |ipa=/ɡra/|note=''rakāransaya''}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ක්‍ය්‍ර|top=ක්ය්ර |ipa=/kjra/|note=''yansaya'' +{{br}}''rakāransaya''}}
|-
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ග්‍ය්‍ර|top=ග්ය්ර |ipa=/ɡjra/|note=''yansaya'' +{{br}}''rakāransaya''}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ර්‍ක|top=ර්ක |ipa=/rka/|note=''rēpaya''}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ර්‍ග|top=ර්ග |ipa=/rɡa/|note=''rēpaya''}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ර්‍ක්‍ය|top=ර්ක්ය |ipa=/rkja/|note=''rēpaya'' +{{br}}''yansaya''}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ර්‍ග්‍ය|top=ර්ග්ය |ipa=/rɡja/|note=''rēpaya'' +{{br}}''yansaya''}}
|-
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ක්‍ව|top=ක්ව |ipa=/kwa/|note=conjunct}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ක්‍ෂ|top=ක්ෂ |ipa=/kʃa/|note=conjunct}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ග්‍ධ|top=ග්ධ |ipa=/ɡdᵊa/|note=conjunct}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ට්‍ඨ|top=ට්ඨ |ipa=/ʈʈᵊa/|note=conjunct}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ත්‍ථ|top=ත්ථ |ipa=/t̪t̪ᵊa/|note=conjunct}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ත්‍ව|top=ත්ව |ipa=/t̪wa/|note=conjunct}}
|-
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ද්‍ධ|top=ද්ධ |ipa=/d̪d̪ᵊa/|note=conjunct}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ද්‍ව|top=ද්ව |ipa=/d̪wa/|note=conjunct}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=න්‍ද|top=න්ද |ipa=/nd̪a/|note=conjunct}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=න්‍ධ|top=න්ධ |ipa=/nd̪ᵊa/|note=conjunct}}
|{{letter|l=si|ch=ම‍්ම|top=ම්ම |ipa=/mma/|note=touching}}
|}