Category:Sinhalese terms by usage

Sinhalese terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Sinhalese colloquialisms: Sinhalese terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Sinhalese dated terms: Sinhalese terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
• Category:Sinhalese derogatory terms: Sinhalese terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Sinhalese dialectal terms: Sinhalese terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Sinhalese formal terms: Sinhalese terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Sinhalese higher register terms: Sinhalese terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Sinhalese honorific terms: Sinhalese honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Sinhalese informal terms: Sinhalese terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Sinhalese nonstandard terms: Sinhalese terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Sinhalese offensive terms: Sinhalese terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Sinhalese proscribed terms: Sinhalese terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Sinhalese rustic terms: Sinhalese terms whose use is typically restricted rural speech.
• Category:Sinhalese terms with archaic senses: Sinhalese terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Sinhalese terms with historical senses: Sinhalese terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Sinhalese terms with obsolete senses: Sinhalese terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Sinhalese vulgarities: Sinhalese terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.