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Keeping Kirinda vital: The endangerment-empowerment dilemma in the documentation of Sri Lanka Malay
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

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Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

All the Sri Lanka Malay speakers are at least bilingual in Sinhala or Tamil which is the natinoal language.

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Year of info

2006

Location and Context

Countries

Sri Lanka

Coordinates

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Location description

Colombo, Slave Island, Kandy & other Upcountry, Hambantota, and Kirinda

Government support

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Speakers' attitudes

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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Other languages used

Sinhala; Tamil; English; Standard Malay

Domains of other languages

almost all

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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.

Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

46,000

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Sri Lanka

Coordinates

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Location description

Cities of Colombo, Kandy, Badulla, Hambantota, Kirinda.

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Cities of Colombo, Kandy, Badulla, Hambantota, Kirinda.

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Coordinates

6.92, 79.86

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

46,000

Domains of Use

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More about speakers

Malays in Sri Lanka constitute 0.3% of the population.

Year of info

2006

Location and Context

Countries

Sri Lanka

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Government support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Other languages used

Sinhala, Tamil, English

Domains of other languages

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More on context

Sri Lanka Malay spoken as a home language. Sinhala, Tamil are national languages.

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Native Speakers Worldwide

30,000-40,000

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

40,000

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"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."

Year of info

2013

Location and Context

Countries

Sri Lanka

Coordinates

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Location description

"The largest number of speakers is found in the greater Colombo area ..."

Government support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

Latin

Other writing systems

"The largest number of speakers is found in the greater Colombo area ..."

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  1. 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
    2012. "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."
  2. "Sri Lanka Malay" DoBES project
    Ansaldo, 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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    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  4. Glottolog
    "Glottolog." Online: http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/.
    http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/
  5. Keeping Kirinda vital: The endangerment-empowerment dilemma in the documentation of Sri Lanka Malay
    Lim, 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_Malay
    http://www.academia.edu/2461108/Keeping_Kirinda_vital_The_endangerment-empowerment_dilemma_in_the_documentation_of_Sri_Lanka_Malay
  6. Sri Lankan Malay
    Slomanson, 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.
  7. Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification
    Umberto Ansaldo. 2008. Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification. In K. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer (eds.), Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages, pp. 13–42. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.