Weerasinghe, A.R.Wasala, R.A.Gamage, K.N.2014-11-132014-11-132005http://repository.kln.ac.lk/jspui/handle/123456789/2881This paper presents a study of Sinhala syllable structure and an algorithm for identifying syllables in Sinhala words. After a thorough study of the Syllable structure and linguistic rules for syllabification of Sinhala words and a survey of the relevant literature, a set of rules was identified and implemented as a simple, easy-to-implement algorithm. The algorithm was tested using 30,000 distinct words obtained from a corpus and compared with the same words manually syllabified. The algorithm performs with 99.95 % accuracy.Sinhalese language, Sri LankaAlgorithmsSyllabicationArticleLinguistics