Rodiya
Native to	Sri Lanka
Ethnicity	Rodiya
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Southern Zone Insular Indo-Aryan Sinhala Rodiya
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	`rodi1239`

Rodiya is a dialect of the Sinhalese language spoken by members of the Rodiya community of Sri Lanka. Speakers are considered to be low-caste among the Sinhalese people.

Examples of Rodiya words:^[1]

References

^ Gunasekara, A comprehensive grammar of the Sinhalese language (1891), pag. 384

Stages

Dialects

Academic

Sinhala and
other languages

Influenced by	Dutch English Portuguese Sanskrit Tamil
Influenced	Macanese Patois Macanese Portuguese

Writing system

Computerization

Grammar and
vocabulary

Phonology

Events

v t e Languages of Sri Lanka
Official languages	Sinhala Tamil
Others	Sri Lankan Tamil Sri Lankan English¹ Sri Lankan Malay Pali² Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole Vedda Sri Lankan sign languages
Formerly spoken and extinct	Arwi Ceylon Dutch Rodiya³
¹Recognized as a "link" language ²a liturgical language ³a dialect of Sinhala