Afro- Portuguese Burghers- Putlam
Kaffer (Locally named as Kapiri), with an ancestry of African Portuguese people who genetically hybridized with the African slaves taken by the colonial rulers, live in Putlam District, of the north western province in Sri Lanka. The community is more popular than the Batticaloa and Trincomalliee Burghers due to their involvement in traditional Portuguese cultural remnants; Kaffirinna and Baila. D.E. Hettiaracchchi (1969), the first scholar to draw out the attention of this language to the national and international academic arena, said that there are more than 100 families in Batticaloa who speaks Portuguese.