Datapoint Sri Lankan Malay/Domains of use: school

For the most part, Sri Lankan Malay is not used as a medium of instruction in school. There are few specifically Muslim schools in which a majority of the students are speakers of the language, and this means that the language has not been given a place in schools. In at least two communities, Kirinda and Bolana, all the students attending the local school are Malay. The medium in the Muslim schools there, and outside the larger urban areas generally, is Tamil. Nevertheless, Sri Lankan Malay is often used by local teachers (i.e. not by Moors) for clarification and discipline. It is also used as a medium of instruction in the villages at pre-school level, along with Tamil/Shonam. The pre-school in Kirinda is called Al Hilal.

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