The influence of Tamil language on Sinhala Hybrid Words
K. Rajaratnam · 2015
Code mixing in an important phenomenon where people of multicultural and multilingual society interact everyday. Though Sinhala language is from Indo Aryan family ,it has been very much influenced by the Tamil language which belongs to the Dravidian language family. This paper attempts to explore the quantum of impact over Sinhala language by Tamil. Code mixing can be occurred in different levels. however this research is restricted to only at the lexical level, specially focused on Hybrid Words.