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The Sri Lanka Sprachbund: The Newcomers Portuguese and Malay

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Linguistic Areas

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The Sprachbund Sri Lanka has not received a lot of attention in the literature. It is connected to the South Asian Sprachbund covering mainly Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman languages, all of them present in the area for millennia. Many of the traits identified for the South Asian Sprachbund are also found in the languages of Sri Lanka.

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    Yaron Matras

  2. University of Edinburgh, UK

    April McMahon

  3. University of Manchester, UK

    Nigel Vincent

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Bakker, P. (2006). The Sri Lanka Sprachbund: The Newcomers Portuguese and Malay. In: Matras, Y., McMahon, A., Vincent, N. (eds) Linguistic Areas. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287617_6

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