e/Negombo Tamil dialect

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has glosseng: Negombo Tamil dialect or Negombo Fishermen’s Tamil is a Sri Lankan Tamil language dialect used by the fishers of Negombo, Sri Lanka. This is just one of the many dialects used by the remnant population of formerly Tamil speaking people of the western Puttalam District and Gampaha District of Sri Lanka. Those who still identify them as ethnic Tamils a known as Negombo Tamils or as Puttalam Tamils but most residents of these districts identify them as ethnic Sinhalese and are some are bilingual in both the languages.
lexicalizationeng: Negombo Fishermen's Tamil
lexicalizationeng: Negombo Tamil dialect
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