Terms of Use

By using this website, you agree to these Terms of Use. This website is operated by University of Cambridge to share academic, educational and public information about Sri Lanka Portuguese and its African roots.

This website provides information, resources and materials for education, research, language awareness and public engagement. The content is provided for general informational purposes and may be updated, corrected or removed at any time.

Unless otherwise stated, website content may be used for educational and non-commercial purposes, provided that the source is clearly acknowledged and the material is not altered in a misleading way.

Any materials taken from this website should be cited as:

Sitaridou, Ioanna. 2026. Tracing the African Roots of Sri Lanka Portuguese. University of Cambridge. Available at: [website URL] (Accessed: [date]).

This project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation [grant number AH/Z505717/1].

Where possible, users should also include the specific page title, website URL, and date accessed.

Some materials, including recordings, images, videos, texts, translations, community contributions and third-party content, may be subject to separate copyright, licence or cultural-use restrictions. Unless otherwise stated, materials on this website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution  Licence. Third-party materials may be subject to separate copyright restrictions. Please check the relevant page or contact us before reusing these materials.

You agree not to use this website or its materials in a way that is unlawful, misleading, offensive, exploitative or disrespectful to the language community, contributors, speakers or cultural heritage represented on the site.

We aim to provide accurate and up-to-date information, but we cannot guarantee that all content is complete, current or error-free. Academic interpretations, spellings, translations and descriptions may change as research develops.

If you submit feedback, comments, language materials, recordings, translations, images or other contributions, you confirm that you have the right to share them and that they do not infringe the rights of others.

By submitting material, you give University of Cambridge permission to review, store and use it for the purposes explained at the point of submission. We will not publicly identify you as a contributor unless you have agreed to this. By using this site you agree that basic information will be collected for analytics purposes.

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All website content belongs to University of Cambridge. The named authors, contributors, institutions or rights holders, unless otherwise stated. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of any intellectual property rights.

This website may contain links to external websites. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, availability or privacy practices of external sites.

This website is provided “as is”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the current website and its contributors and owners are not liable for any loss or damage arising from use of, or reliance on, the website or its content.

We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. The latest version will be posted on this page.

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Prof Ioanna Sitaridou

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
Raised Faculty Building
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
United Kingdom

Email: slap@mmll.cam.ac.uk