Negombo Tamils

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Negombo Tamils or Puttalam Tamils are the Tamil speaking ethnic Karavas who live in the western

Batticalao Tamils or Eastern Tamils from the traditional Tamil dominant North and East of the Island nation. Negombo is a principal coastal city in the Gampaha District and Puttalam is also the principal city within the neighbouring Puttalam District.[1][2][3][4]

Assimilation

Main article: Sinhalisation

The main feature of the Negombo Tamils is the continuing process of assimilation into the majority

myths and legends
.

Distribution of Sri Lankan Tamil people in Sri Lanka by DS Division according 2012 census including the Negambo and Puttalam area

In the Gampaha district ethnic Tamils have historically inhabited the coastal belt, as in the neighboring Puttalam district, which until the first two decades of the twentieth century had a substantial ethnic

Tamil population, of whom the majority were Catholics and a minority were Hindus.[5][6][7]
According to
weavers and other artisans.[8][9]

This historic process was embraced by the educational policies of a local bishop,

Edmund Peiris, who was instrumental in changing the medium of education from Tamil to Sinhala.[9][10][11]

Survival of Tamil heritage

Traditional fishing oru or outrigger canoe at Negombo beach is the traditional craft of the island, particularly the Sinhalese people, the vallam, thepam (crafts without an outrigger) and cattamaran (tied logs) are the traditional crafts of South India[12]

Due to the

Catholics) who maintain their Tamil heritage throughout both these districts in major cities such as Negombo, Chilaw, Puttalam and in villages such as Mampuri.[5]

Negombo Tamil is the fact that the Karavas immigrated to Sri Lanka much later than Tamils immigrated to Jaffna. This would suggest that the Negombo dialect continued to evolve in the Coromandel Coast before it arrived in Sri Lanka and began to get influenced by Sinhala. So, in some ways, the dialect is closer to those spoken in Tamil Nadu than is Jaffna Tamil.[14]

Tamil heritage is

Lord Shiva, whose famous temple at Munneswaram
was built by Raja Raja Cholan a Tamil king.

See also

  • Colombo Chettys
  • Bharatakula
  • Karave
  • Place names in Sri Lanka

References

  1. ^ a b c Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Realignment in Negombo Fishermen’s Tamil Archived 2008-02-29 at the Wayback Machine By Bonta Stevens, South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable XXIII (October 12, 2003) The University of Texas at Austin
  2. ^ Negombo fishermen's Tamil: A case of contact-induced language change from Sri Lanka by Bonta Stevens , Cornell University
  3. ^ Roman-Dutch law versus Tesavalamai FERNANDO v. PROCTOR el al.
  4. ^ Sri Lanka:History and Roots of Conflict by Jonathan Spencer
  5. ^ a b Participation, Patrons and the Village: The case of Puttalam District Archived 2008-06-11 at the Wayback Machine by Jens Foell et al.
  6. ^ Pearling, fishing and military heritage of Chilaw residents from India
  7. ^ Susantha Goonetilleke, Sinhalisation: Migration or Cultural Colonization? Lanka Guardian Vol. 3, No. I, May I, 1980, pp. 22-29, and May 15 1980, pp. 18-19.
  8. ^ 1921 Ceylon census by L.B. Turner (p202 of Vol I)
  9. ^ a b Spencer, J, Sri Lankan history and roots of conflict, p. 23
  10. ^ How Sri Lanka undermined infallibility of Pope John Paul II
  11. ISBN 81-234-0395-X
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  12. ^ Records of Traditional Watercraft from South and West Sri Lanka, Gerhard Kapitan (G. Grainge & S. Devendra), pp. 22-46
  13. ^ The Maravar Suitor Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine By Henry Corea (The Sunday Observer)
  14. ^ "How a unique Tamil dialect survived among a fishing community in Sri Lanka". 23 March 2022.
  15. ^ Kularatnam, K (April 1966). "Tamil Place Names in Ceylon outside the Northern and Eastern Provinces". Proceedings of the First International Conference Seminar of Tamil Studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia vol.1. International Association of Tamil Research. pp. 486–493.

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