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... languages in Sri Lanka . " Raining no , how to come ? " illustrates several syntactic features of Sri Lankan English speech ... language transfer from Sinhalese to English . The Sinhalese utterance is ' vahinava nee , kohomada ennee ...
... languages in Sri Lanka . " Raining no , how to come ? " illustrates several syntactic features of Sri Lankan English speech ... language transfer from Sinhalese to English . The Sinhalese utterance is ' vahinava nee , kohomada ennee ...
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... transfer of colloquial Sinhala ' itin kohomada ? " " So how ? " means ' how are you ? ' 520 . SO SO / soo // soo / i . " So so any news ? " i . The phrase " so so " is a language transfer from colloquial Sinhala ' itin itin . ' It is ...
... transfer of colloquial Sinhala ' itin kohomada ? " " So how ? " means ' how are you ? ' 520 . SO SO / soo // soo / i . " So so any news ? " i . The phrase " so so " is a language transfer from colloquial Sinhala ' itin itin . ' It is ...
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... language transfer from Sinhalese . The Sinhalese form of farewell , ' itin api gihilla enna ' is transferred to English to convey the meaning ' au revoir or we'll be back ( in a non - threatening way ) . ' This expression is the most ...
... language transfer from Sinhalese . The Sinhalese form of farewell , ' itin api gihilla enna ' is transferred to English to convey the meaning ' au revoir or we'll be back ( in a non - threatening way ) . ' This expression is the most ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
Elitist English | 33 |
Mixing Languages | 49 |
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abbreviation accent adjective associated become bilingual borrowing from Sinhalese borrowing from Tamil British British English Buddhist called caste characteristic close colloquial Colombo colonial compound noun considered culture derogatory describe discussion Dutch elite English in Sri English word ethnic example expression front given Glossary going governance identity included influence Jaffna kind language linguistic looks majority Malay marker Michigan mixing morphological Muslim native official official language originally person phrase political Portuguese Professor refers reflects represents rice round sari schools served similar Sinhala Sinhalese and Tamil Sinhalese means Sinhalese word social society speak speakers speech Sri Lankan English SSLE Standard suffix sweet Table Tamil term thing traditional transfer translation University usually variety of English verb vowel women writing