Note 2 — The Yakā of the Akaraganē Jungle
Reading edition
Man̆ḍa walaka. In village talk and writing, the semi-consonants n̆, ṇ̆, and n̐ are often inserted in words in which they do not occur in ordinary Sinhalese; on the other hand, these letters, and m̆ as a semi-consonant, are often omitted in writing words in which they are always pronounced. ↑