Already many sentence alignment techniques have been implemented for some languages pairs such as English-French <cite>(Gale and Church, 1993</cite>; Brown et al., 1991; Chen, 1993; Braune and Fraser 2010; Lamraoui and Langlais, 2013) , English-German<cite> (Gale and Church, 1993)</cite> English-Chinese (Wu, 1994; Chuang and Yeh, 2005) and Hungarian-English (Varga et al., 2005; Tóth et al., 2008) . However, none of these techniques have been evaluated for Sinhala and Tamil, the two official languages in Sri Lanka. This paper presents the first ever study on automatically creating a sentence aligned parallel corpus for Sinhala and Tamil.