Sri Lanka Malay

Sri Lanka Malay

The Sri Lankan Creole Malay language is a unique mixture of the Sinhalese language and the Tamil language with Malay. Sri Lanka Malay (SLM) is a restructured vernacular of Malay base spoken by at least five different communities in Sri Lanka which has evolved to be significantly divergent from other varieties of Malay due to intimate contact with the dominant languages of Sinhala and Tamil. The Malays in Sri Lanka, whose ancestry include laborers brought by the Dutch and British, as well as soldiers in the Dutch garrison, now constitute 0.3% of the population, numbering some 46,000. It is spoken exclusively by the Malay ethnic minority in Sri Lanka.

References

Ansaldo, U. 2008 Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis andclassification. In A. Dwyer, D. Harrison & D. Rood (eds). A world ofmany voices: Lessons from documented endangered languages. TypologicalStudies in Language 78. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.13-42.


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