Portuguese Creole Kaffringha Baila of Ceylon - Sri Lanka (Original)

This is a song by the Batticaloa Dutch Burgher community who speak Creole language. Today, only a few members of the community can speak the Portuguese Creole of their ancestors.

Visuals depict of the Kaffir community in Puttlam who also speak Creole language. This is an error made during the creation of the video and was not intentional. My apologies of any inconvenience caused by the error.

Baila, one of the favaourite genres of music in Sri Lanka was introduced to the mainstream, by the late Wally Bastiansz by adapting 6/8 Kaffringha rythms to accomodate Sinhalese lyrics.

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Entertainment

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• Kaffringha
• Baila
• Batticaloa
• Eastern
• Sri
• Lanka
• Portuguese
• Creole
• Wally
• Bastiansz
• 6/8
• Beat
• Music
• Portugal
• Ceylon
• Burgher
• Burghers

[ukusapillage]

im portuguese at first hearing it sounds strang but then i can understand it very well, this song is about someone saying hes inocent or talking maybe about justice, another song i clearly heard baila todo dia baila in perfect portuguese, congrats after 400 years the culture is alive and well its amazing from brazil to china and even in sri lanka with all the changes they kept the culture intact a true gem for the world and sri lanka

[goonewj]

@ukusapillage

Thank you for the appreciation and lovely comment!!

[ReshiKillerX]

muito bong, muito bunito. palabras tantu igual com palabras lingua portugues malaca. yo jenti portugues Malaca quem senti miuto gabadu com este cantigas, igual com nossa Branyo.i am a Malacca portuguese and i am so moved with the songs as it displayed strong similarities with our Branyo songs. i could understand the lyrics and i guess we share acommon cultural heritage with the Kaffir and Burghur communities of Sri :Lanka.How do I get intouch With dis Performers? Saodi!...mikesingho@gmail.com

[goonewj]

@ReshiKillerX

Hi Mike, thank you very much for the detailed information about your cultural heritage and roots, and sorry for the late acknowledgement. For some issue on YT I could not see your comments all this time. I am in UK, however, will try to see if I can find a link to them.

Cheers

Jude

[jmgabriel99]

goonewj thank you so very kindly i cant thank you enough.These are the people who contributed in every'way they can to the Sri Lanken society. In return What did they get???????. they still keep on doing the best they con. People who love Sri Lanka so much. I remember my uncel " basil collas" used to sing thies songs,even now when i go back home.(he is in his mid 90 ties)

[goonewj]

@jmgabriel99

Sorry for the late reply. I fully agree with you!!

[Ricomontal]

I don't know how someone says it is almost like Chinese to Portuguese speakers. I can understand a lot of it and I suspect i will be able to understand much more if I have the lyrics or it is sung slowly. God bless you brother people

[ReshiKillerX]

muito bong. muito allegria ubi este cantigas.as a malacca portuguese i am overwhelmed to hear and discover strong similarities between our two portuguese based langages.though such similarities has been talked, hearing it carries a different impact.some words from the jinkli nona(our cultural anthem) appeared and it lumped my throat.it means even more as my paternal roots are from Sri Lanka.we are fighting to keep the creole alive here.hope its d same there.SAUDADE...mike singho@gmail.com

[chaotic1979]

hehe....i know this guy from srilanka....who claims he is burgher, and therefore actually european(portugeese) only he is as black as his hair,. Now i know why he has a portugeese last name. most people guess he is an african.

[stevedelazilwa]

@Anton017

the kaffirs have nothing to do with the kaffringha

one is african and the other is portuguese