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This is a list of Sinhala words of Dutch origin. Note: For information on the transcription used, see National Library at Calcutta romanization. An exception from the standard is the romanization of Sinhala long "ä" ([æː]) as "ää". Sinhala words of Dutch origin came about during the period of Dutch colonial rule in Sri Lanka between 1658 ...
Hi Krankman, here is the big list: Naturalised and derived words from Dutch in Sinhalese agasti - agate adwakaat - advocate apóstalu - apostle awagaara - auger aepaela - appeal (law) iskaakara - distillery iskuruppuwa - screw istrikkaya - iron (for clothes) istóppuwa - outer verandah ispiritaalaya - hospital orlósuwa - clock klae:siya - class kantóruwa - office kanappa - stand kalukumaa ...
The Dutch Burghers largely descend from the Dutch people, with mixtures of Dutch and Sri Lankans (either a Dutch father and a Sri Lankan mother, or a Dutch father and a Portuguese Burgher mother; when a Dutch man marries a Sri Lankan woman, their children are Burgher). However, direct Dutch ancestry is not always the case.
Pages in category "Lists of Sinhala words of foreign origin" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... List of Sinhala words of Dutch origin; E.
Sinhala (/ ˈ s ɪ n h ə l ə, ˈ s ɪ ŋ ə l ə / SIN-hə-lə, SING-ə-lə; [2] Sinhala: සිංහල, siṁhala, [ˈsiŋɦələ]), [3] sometimes called Sinhalese (/ ˌ s ɪ n (h) ə ˈ l iː z, ˌ s ɪ ŋ (ɡ) ə ˈ l iː z / SIN-(h)ə-LEEZ, SING-(g)ə-LEEZ), is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the ...
The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. [3]
Dutch Ceylon (Sinhala: ලන්දේසි ලංකාව; Tamil: ஒல்லாந்த இலங்கை) was a governorate established in present-day Sri Lanka by the Dutch East India Company.
Those of a Portuguese-Jewish background can be traced in various forms or surmised from their surname. Most Burghers of Eurasian descent with Portuguese surnames are of Sinhalese and Dutch, British, German and/or other European descent. During the Dutch period, all Dutch colonial operations were overseen by the VOC. Virtually all Burghers from ...