Cross-Cultural Influences on the Language of the Sri Lankan Malays

Author: Silva Jayasuriya, Shihan de¹

Source: African and Asian Studies, Volume 8, Number 3, 2009 , pp. 222-238(17)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

Although Sri Lanka has had links with the Malays from ancient times, the Sri Lankan Malays trace their ancestry only from the mid-seventeenth century. Taking into account the process of global commercial interactions and territorial expansion, this paper demonstrates the effects of cross-cultural contact in the language of the Sri Lanka Malays illustrated through typological alterations and lexical changes in a multilingual and multicultural setting.

Keywords: SRI LANKA MALAY; CROSS-CULTURAL CONTACT; LANGUAGE CHANGE; MIGRATION

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1163/156921009X458091

Affiliations: 1: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, London WC1B 5DS, England;, Email: shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk

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