Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole

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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.

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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.

Asian Portuguese hasDialect Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole
Asian Portuguese relatedTo Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole
Dutch Burgher historicalLanguage Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole
Burghers (Sri Lanka) language Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole