Sri Lanka Malay and its Lankan adstrates

Sri Lanka Malay is the vernacular language of the descendants of the Malay-Javanese diaspora of Sri Lanka. It is a restructured variety of Malay, which emerged from the prolonged contact between speakers of Malay varieties and speakers of Sinhala and Tamil varieties. The grammar shows a typological...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ansaldo, Umberto
Other Authors: Lefebvre, Claire
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86275