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Portuguese in Sri Lanka: influence ofsubstratum languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
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Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole is considered to fallwithin the group of Indo-Portuguese Creoles, whichwere Portuguese-based Creoles that once flourishedaround coastal India and Sri Lanka. Sri LankaPortuguese Creole arose when the Portugueseestablished trading posts and fortresses in SriLanka from 1517 onwards. The purpose of this paperis to examine critically the influence of substratum(indigenous) languages on Sri Lanka PortugueseCreole.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , July 1999 , pp. 251 - 270
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1999

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