"RASK, RASMUS. - IDENTIFYING THE RELATION BETWEEN SINHALESE AND SANSKRIT.
Reference : 50911
(1821)
Kolombo (Colombo), 1821. With orig. blank blue backwrapper (frontwrapper lacks). (2),16 pp. Titlepage brownspotted.
First edition. In this importent work Rask ""identified Sinhalese as a speech belonging to the same class as Sanskrit and added that Tamil belonged to quite a different class. Since then the subject has been studied and discusses by various scholars, and it is established beyond doubt that Sinhalese is an Indo-Aryan language.""