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Theruwan Saranai Lal,

I was wondering if you can help me to confirm something since I’m not familiar with Sinhalese . In this video (I time stamped the relevant part). “Atto”?

Did the guy in the video say “atto” is applied as a suffix to living objects? If the guy did really say “atto”, isn’t it very similar to the word “atta”?

For certain reasons in the last year or two, I started believing / have the view that the ancient language of Sri Lanka before modern Sinhalese is the language closest related to magadhi. Listening to what’s said near the end of the video  (starting from 4:40 to 5:20 of the video) really caught my interest how deep or profound a language can give meanings / ideas / concepts to.   

Timestamped 4:40 to 5:20 of the video

Thank you for your time and help. 

[Lal]

He is talking about words used in ancient times. I am not familiar with most of them. I don’t know whether those are correct.

• Regarding “atto” is applied as a suffix to living objects, I have not heard that.
• However, in some villages, “atto” is applied to a “person” (actually as “attā”; it is not pronounced the same way as ‘atta’ in ‘anatta’: ඇත්තා as in ‘මේ ඇත්තා’ or ‘this person’). 

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