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Indo-Portuguese Songs of Sri Lanka: the Nevill Manuscript1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2009
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The Portuguese presence in Sri Lanka dates back to the early sixteenth century and lasted some hundred and fifty years. It gave rise to a Creole language based on Portuguese, Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole (SLPC), which Dalgado (1936) considered to be the most vigorous of the Portuguese Creoles.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 253 - 267
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1996
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