Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole
E541756
Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language historically spoken in Sri Lanka, shaped by centuries of contact between Portuguese colonizers and local Sri Lankan communities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole canonical | 4 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese-based creole
ⓘ
contact language ⓘ creole language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| declineCause |
replacement by English
ⓘ
replacement by Sinhala ⓘ replacement by Tamil ⓘ |
| developedDuring | Portuguese colonial period in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Early Modern Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedInPeriod |
16th century
ⓘ
17th century ⓘ |
| glottologStatus | listed in Glottolog ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Ceylon Portuguese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ceylon Portuguese Creole NERFINISHED ⓘ Sri Lanka Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole of the Burghers
ⓘ
Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole of the Kaffirs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
lexicon largely derived from Portuguese
ⓘ
phonology influenced by Sinhala ⓘ phonology influenced by Tamil ⓘ reduced Portuguese inflection ⓘ |
| historicalFunction |
interethnic communication
ⓘ
trade language ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Ceylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Portuguese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sinhala NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISOStatus | has no ISO 639-3 code ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Ibero-Romance languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Portuguese Creole ⓘ Romance languages ⓘ |
| morphology | analytic language ⓘ |
| primaryLexifierLanguage | Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Indian Portuguese creoles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kristi language of Diu ⓘ Malacca Portuguese Creole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Burgher community
ⓘ
Kaffir community NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status |
endangered language
ⓘ
moribund language ⓘ |
| substrateLanguage |
Sinhala
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tamil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| usedAs | lingua franca in colonial Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.