Sri Lanka Malay
Sri Lankan Creole Malay; Melayu Bahasa; Java Jati; Sri Lankan Malay; Melayu; Sri Lanka pe Melayu; Java; Ja basawa; Java mozhi
Pidgin or Creole; Malay based
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Sinhala; Tamil; English; Standard Malay
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All the Sri Lanka Malay speakers are at least bilingual in Sinhala or Tamil which is the natinoal language.
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2006
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Colombo, Slave Island, Kandy & other Upcountry, Hambantota, and Kirinda
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Revitalization projects by communities members are heard but they target at learning Malaysia's Standard Malay instead of Sri Lanka Malay.
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Colombo, Slave Island, Kandy & other Upcountry, Hambantota, and Kirinda
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Sinhala; Tamil; English; Standard Malay
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In Colombo, Sinhala and English are predominantly used and younger generations can't speak Sri Lanka Malay. As for Sri Lanka Malay spoken on Slave Island, it has been strongly influenced by Tamil. In Hambantota and Kirinda, speakers of Sri Lanka Malay are often trilingual in Sinhala and Tamil. By contrast, Sri Lanka Malay is the dominant language spoken by all generations in Kirinda. However, language shift to Standard Malay has been observed in Sri Lanka Malay speaking communities.
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Cities of Colombo, Kandy, Badulla, Hambantota, Kirinda.
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Cities of Colombo, Kandy, Badulla, Hambantota, Kirinda.
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6.92, 79.86
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Malays in Sri Lanka constitute 0.3% of the population.
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Sinhala, Tamil, English
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Sri Lanka Malay spoken as a home language. Sinhala, Tamil are national languages.
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40,000
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"There are no statistics on the number of speakers living outside Sri Lanka, and the statistics that are available fro Sri Lanka are ethnic statistics rather than linguistic ones."
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"The largest number of speakers is found in the greater Colombo area ..."
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"The largest number of speakers is found in the greater Colombo area ..."
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- "Sri Lanka Malay" DoBES projectAnsaldo, Umberto. 2006. ""Sri Lanka Malay" DoBES Project." Online: http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/slm.http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/slm
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- Glottolog"Glottolog." Online: http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/.http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/
- Keeping Kirinda vital: The endangerment-empowerment dilemma in the documentation of Sri Lanka MalayLim, Lisa and Ansaldo, Umberto. 2006. Keeping Kirinda vital: The endangerment-empowerment dilemma in the documentation of Sri Lanka Malay. ACLC Working Papers 1. 51-66. http://www.academia.edu/2461108/Keeping_Kirinda_vital_The_endangerment-empowerment_dilemma_in_the_documentation_of_Sri_Lanka_Malayhttp://www.academia.edu/2461108/Keeping_Kirinda_vital_The_endangerment-empowerment_dilemma_in_the_documentation_of_Sri_Lanka_Malay
- Sri Lankan MalaySlomanson, Peter. 2013. Sri Lankan Malay. In The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages - Volume III: Contact Languages Based on the Languages from Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, edited by Michaelis, Susanne Maria, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber, pp. 77-85. Oxford University Press.
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