Negombo Tamils

For other uses, see Negombo Tamil (disambiguation).

Negombo Tamils or Puttalam Tamils are the Tamil speaking ethnic Karavas who live in the western Gampaha and Puttalam districts of Sri Lanka. They are distinguished from other Tamils from the island nation by their unique dialects, one of which is known as Negombo Tamil dialect. Other sub categories of native Tamils of Sri Lanka are Jaffna Tamils or Northern Tamils and 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]

  1. ^ 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