Rodiya dialect

Rodiya
Rodiya
Native to	Sri Lanka
Ethnicity	Rodiya
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Southern Zone Insular Indo-Aryan Sinhala Rodiya; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	rodi1239

Rodiya is a dialect of the Sinhalese language spoken by members of the Rodiya community of Sri Lanka. Speakers are considered to be low-caste among the Sinhalese people.

Examples of Rodiya words:

References

↑ Gunasekara, A comprehensive grammar of the Sinhalese language (1891), pag. 384

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Official languages	Sinhala Tamil
Semiofficial language	Sri Lankan English¹
Others	Sri Lankan Tamil Sri Lankan Malay Pali² Sri Lankan Portuguese creole Vedda Sri Lankan sign languages
Formerly spoken and extinct	Arwi Ceylon Creole Dutch Rodiya³
¹Recognized as a "link" language ²a liturgical language ³a dialect of Sinhala