Sri Lanka Creole PortugueseSri Lanka Creole Portuguese, better known by its acronym, SLPC, is mainly spoken in few different places in Sri Lanka. The Creole, as a remnant of the Portuguese Colonial rule in Sri Lanka (lasted over 130 years- 1505-1639) emerged as lingua franca due to the socio- cultural encounter between Sinhalese and Portuguese which happened in the coastal regions of the country,
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LocationSri Lankan Portuguese Creole
Native to Sri Lanka Ethnicity- Burghers Language family Portuguese Creole
ISO 639-3– Glottologmala1544 (Malabar–Sri Lanka Portuguese) Linguasphere- 51-AAC-age |