Ceylon Creole Dutch
| Ceylon Dutch Creole | |
|---|---|
| Region | Sri Lanka |
| Ethnicity | Dutch Burghers |
| Extinct | 1860s[1] |
Dutch Creole
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Ceylon Creole Dutch is an extinct Dutch-based creole language.[2][3] It was used in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), which was a Dutch colony from 1658 to 1796. Ceylon was first a Portuguese colony with Portuguese as the official language. After the takeover, the Dutch introduced the Dutch language, which mixed with Portuguese, English, and the other languages spoken in Ceylon. The language is dead, but it had some influence on Tamil and Sinhala languages. Some inhabitants of the island still have Dutch surnames, mostly they are descendants of mixed marriages between Europeans and Ceylonians. They are referred to as Burghers (includes Dutch and Portuguese Burghers) and make up less than 0.5% of the country's population. They abandoned this language around 1860s in favor of English.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Ramerini, Marco. "The Dutch Burghers of Ceylon". Colonialvoyage.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
- ^ Ute K. Boonen, Ingeborg Harmes, Michaela Poß, Truus Kruyt, Gunther De Vogelaer (2013). Niederländische Sprachwissenschaft: Eine Einführung (in German). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. p. 177. ISBN 978-3-8233-6771-0. OCLC 827016732. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Agbedo, Chris U. (2007). Problems of Multilingual Nations: The Nigerian Perspective. Enugu: Fidgina Global Books. p. 41. ISBN 978-8132-84-7. OCLC 461626017.