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SAP is the world's leading publisher of Sinhala language textbooks, with books for colloquial and literary, beginning and intermediate language learners. SAP also publishes beginning and intermediate Nepali language textbooks, and a Nepali-English glossary.

Nine SAP occasional papers, published between 1971 and 1996, are available as open access PDF downloads. The annually published SAP bulletin is also available open access, as are 40 previous bulletins, which used to be published semi-annually, going back to 1990.

In 2023, SAP debuted a podcast, The Next Monsoon (available on all major platforms), tied to a National Endowment for the Humanities funded project, The Next Monsoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia.

SAP also sells three documentary film DVDs on religion and community in Gwalior by Daniel Gold, Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies.

Bandara Herath
This workbook introduces the student to the Sinhala Alphabet, guiding him/her in learning the Sinhala characters and combinations of the sounds as represented by those characters. From the basic…
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Banu Oja & Shambhu Oja
This textbook introduces students to the Nepali language through 16 lessons.
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Shambhu Oja, Banu Oja, Mark Turin, Elisabeth Uphoff
This glossary has been compiled from the vocabulary contained in Cornell’s other three Nepali textbooks.  All the words in this glossary are coded by subject and by the chapter or story in which…
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Cornell University
One CD in .mp3 format. Lessons 1-16. Accompanies Nepali: A Beginner's Primer textbook.
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Ved P. Kayastha
Ved Kayastha, 1996, (Revised edition, 1922-1993). 
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Cornell University
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Gordon H. Fairbanks, James Gair, M.W. Sugathapala De Silva
Order limited to 2 copies per person/institution. CDs are sold separately.
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Gordon H. Fairbanks, James Gair, M.W. Sugathapala De Silva
Order limited to 2 copies per person/institution. CDs are sold separately.
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Cornell University
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James Gair, W.S. Karunatillake, John Paolillo
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