Filmed on my recent trip to Sri Lanka, I look at the languages of Sri Lanka - Sinhala, Tamil, Sri Lankan Malay, Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole and Sri Lankan English. There's a deep dive into the writing systems, loan words and grammar of all the languages.
00:00 Main and official languages
01:03 Names of Sri Lanka
02:52 Sinhala case system
05:54 Diglossia
06:13 Sinhala writing system
07:22 Retroflex consonants
09:42 Tamil
10:24 Agglutinative grammar
14:57 Nasal consonants
15:52 Vedda language
17:14 Foreign influence and loan words in Sinhala and Tamil
18:52 Sri Lankan English
19:40 Sri Lankan Malay
21:05 Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole
22:35 Sri Lankan Sign Language
22:53 Jaffna Library