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unclassified · creole or pidgin
Sri Lankan Creole Malay
Sri Lankan Creole Malay is a creole or pidgin, spoken in Sri Lanka. Wikidata counts about 46,000 speakers (2006). Wikidata describes it as “creole formed from the mix of Sinhala and Tamil with Malay”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
sci- Glottocode
sril1245- Family
- unclassified
- EGIDS
- 6b Threatened
- Wikipedia
- 11 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
3scripts
—levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Sri Lankan Creole Malay |
|---|---|
| Also called | Sri Lankan Malay, Bahasa Melayu, Sri Lankan Creole Malay, Sri Lanka Malay language |
| All speakers | 46,000 (2006) |
| Written in | Sinhala script, Tamil script, New Rumi Spelling |
| Kind | creole or pidgin |
Vitality
EGIDS 6b Threatened6b
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelwhere it is spoken