Sri Lanka Portuguese Archives

New baila song puts Portuguese Burghers and their culture on a bigger stage – by Mahesh An exciting new and trending baila release MINHA AMOR –Mee wadayaki – Remake by The Voice Sri Lanka contestant Derrick Keil puts a spotlight on Portuguese Burghers as well as the legacy of their unique music, dance and language. The track is a medley of Portuguese Burgher káfriinha (or kaffringha) and Sinhala baila conceptualised and sung sweetly by Keil featuring music by Georgy, mixed and mastered by Amith Guru with a video clip directed by Sandesh Bandara. Portuguese Burghers, their káfriinha and language A small minority Eurasian community, Portuguese Burghers are particularly concentrated in Sri Lanka’s east where they maintain a number of their traditions. One of these is káfriinha, a social square dance comprising European melodies, African and Asian groove, and Portuguese medieval poetic influences. As this music became popular across the island ...

The Current State of Sri Lanka Portuguese | Sebastian Nordhoff … Photo source ( https://www.elanka.com.au/portuguese-sri-lankan-surnames-and-their-meanings/ ) Sebastian Nordhoff is from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. I met Sebastian in Batticaloa during his research of this subject. He joined us on a visit to the Burgher community in Panichiadya (Dutch Bar community relocation after tsunami). A few of the Burgher people present at the meeting spoke the Portuguese dialect fluently. A few lively songs were also sung in the language. It was a very enjoyable visit. I note that there are some interesting observations in Sebastian’s article [below] regarding the Portuguese and Dutch era’s. Mignon The Current State of Sri Lanka Portuguese | Sebastian Nordhoff … The current state of Sri Lanka Portuguese Introduction 1 This paper gives an overview of the state of Sri Lanka Portuguese after the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009). Sri Lanka Portuguese is a Portuguese-based Creole spoken by the Portuguese Burgher population on the East Coast of the island, and by the Ceylon Kaffir population ...