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    Sri Lanka Malay and its Lankan adstrates

    Sri Lanka Malay and its Lankan adstrates by Ansaldo, Umberto

    Published 2011
    “…Sri Lanka Malay is the vernacular language of the descendants of the Malay-Javanese diaspora of Sri Lanka. …”
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    Metatypy in Sri Lanka Malay

    Metatypy in Sri Lanka Malay by Ansaldo, Umberto

    Published 2011
    “…In this paper I show that metatypy efficiently explains the evo-lution of a new language – Sri Lanka Malay – as the outcome of the contact between Sinhala, Lankan Tamil and Trade Malay. …”
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    Keeping Kirinda vital: The endangerment-empowerment dilemma in the documentation of Sri Lanka Malay

    Keeping Kirinda vital: The endangerment-empowerment dilemma in the documentation of Sri Lanka Malay by Lim, Lisa, Ansaldo, Umberto

    Published 2006
    “…In the past, pressure from the country's dominant languages (Sinhala, Tamil and English), as well as negative stigma associated with their own 'creole', has led to different degrees of attrition in the SLM communities. …”
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