Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole Manuscript

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The Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole Manuscript is a significant record of the

Kaffir communities. It a precious source for linguistic, literary, anthropological, and folkloric
studies.

The manuscript was collected by Hugh Nevill in the period 1865–1897, and is now at the British Library.

The manuscript contains 1,049 quatrains, divided into three sections:

  • Portuguese Song Batticaloa (Burgher)
  • Songs of the Portuguese Kaffrinha (Kaffir)
  • The Story of Orson and Valentine

The story of Orson and Valentine was very popular in Europe. Variants of the story are found in 5th century

Sinhalese
theatre (Balasanta Nadagama).

The manuscript is written using a mix of Portuguese and Dutch orthography.

External links

  • Callaway, John (1820). A Vocabulary, in the Ceylon Portuguese, and English Languages. Colombo: Wesleyan Mission Press. – Book teaching the basics of Sri Lanka Indo-Portuguese
  • Sri Lanka Portuguese Creoles from a Sri Lanka virtual library site.
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