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Exhibition : ‘Borrowed Words: spoken then & now'
Sri Lanka shares an element of its linguistic heritage with the countries that colonised it from the 16th century onwards.
The Embassy of Netherlands in Colombo highlighted this shared cultural heritage in celebrating the friendship between the two countries at ‘Borrowed Words: spoken then & now”, part of a design collaboration with the Academy of Design.
Some words in the Sinhala language that we use in common parlance today derive their origin from Dutch words. Some are still in use today- for example ‘kokiya’ (cook) was originally kokin, ‘Kasiya’ (coin) was kwartje, and ‘baas’ (mason) was, well, baas.
Some words, like ‘Wortal’ for carrot and ‘kraan’ for tap have disappeared from usage, replaced by their English counterpart.
The exhibition, which was open at the Dutch Burgher Union last weekend, featured the work of graphic design students from the Academy of Design.
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