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Sri Lankan Tamil dialects are distinct from the Tamil dialects used in Tamil Nadu, India.They are used in Sri Lanka and in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora.Linguistic borrowings from European colonizers such as the Portuguese, English and the Dutch have also contributed to a unique vocabulary that is distinct from the colloquial usage of Tamil in the Indian mainland.
Impact of English loan words on modern Sinhala (PDF). 9th International conference on Sri Lanka Studies. Matara, Sri Lanka. Matara, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (DOC) on 12 July 2018.
Tamil loanwords in Sinhala can appear in the same form as the original word (e.g. akkā), but this is quite rare.Usually, a word has undergone some kind of modification to fit into the Sinhala phonological (e.g. paḻi becomes paḷi(ya) because the sound of /ḻ/, [], does not exist in the Sinhala phoneme inventory) or morphological system (e.g. ilakkam becomes ilakkama because Sinhala ...
There are many Tamil loanwords in other languages. The Tamil language , primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka , has produced loanwords in many different languages, including Ancient Greek , Biblical Hebrew , English , Malay , native languages of Indonesia , Mauritian Creole , Tagalog , Russian , and Sinhala and Dhivehi .
Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil; Tatsama; List of loanwords in Thai; List of replaced loanwords in Turkish This page was last edited on 3 September 2021, at 18:59 (UTC
1 Sanskritisms and Loan words. 11 comments. 2 Sanskrit loans in SL Tamil. 2 comments. 3 Sanskrit(isms), loanwords, Elu etc. ... Talk: Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil ...
List of loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil → Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil – Please place your rationale for the proposed move here. Kanatonian 14:22, 14 April 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Wikiexplorationandhelping 00:12, 23 April 2024 (UTC) Relisting comment: No reason was inputted for the move.
Is the aim to list all words of foreign origin in Sri Lankan Tamil, or only those words which are special to Sri Lankan Tamil (and not also found in Indian Tamil)? The introduction suggests the former, but many of your words are also used in Indian Tamil. -- Arvind 19:52, 27 June 2006 (UTC) I've marked off the words that seem to be unique to SL ...