OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI522309

Metadata
Title:		K060116nar23
		Description of Sri Lanka Malay
Contributor (consultant):		Cassiere
Contributor (researcher):		Sebastian Nordhoff
Coverage:		Sri Lanka
Date:		2006-01-16
Description:		Sri Lanka Malay (SLM) is a restructured vernacular of Malay base spoken by at least five different communities in Sri Lanka which has evolved to be significantly divergent from other varieties of Malay due to intimate contact with the dominant languages of Sinhala and Tamil. The Malays in Sri Lanka, whose ancestry include laborers brought by the Dutch and British, as well as soldiers in the Dutch garrison, now constitute 0.3% of the population, numbering some 46,000. (See Ansaldo 2005, 2006, for more on sociohistorical aspects of SLM.)
		Jaam Cassiere is the president of the Hill Country Malay association and the most important person for cultural affairs. His performance of /dhua/ (prayers) for weddings and funerals are requested all over the island. He is the only person in Sri Lanka who still knows how to perform traditional panthong. He has a considerable collection of VCDs, papercuts, photos, etc relating to cultural matters.
		I am the field worker in Kandy
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI522309
Identifier (URI):		http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI522309%23
Publisher:		Umberto Ansaldo
		University of Amsterdam
Subject:		Narrative
		Unspecified
		Sri Lankan Creole Malay language
		Sri Lanka Malay
Subject (ISO639):		sci
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive's IMDI portal
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI522309
DateStamp:		2009-08-03
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Search Info
Citation:		Cassiere (consultant); Sebastian Nordhoff (researcher). 2006-01-16. Umberto Ansaldo.
Terms:		area_Asia country_LK iso639_sci
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Sri Lanka
Area:		Asia