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Tamil is also the first language of the majority of Sri Lankan Moors and the Indian Tamils - according to the 2012 census 98% of Sri Lankan Moors could speak Tamil but only 59% could speak Sinhala. [32] English is fluently spoken by approximately 23.8% [33] of the Sri Lanka's population, and widely used for official and commercial purposes.
Sri Lankan New Zealanders comprised 3% of the Asian population of New Zealand in 2001. [50] The numbers arriving continued to increase, and at the 2018 census there were over 16,000 Sri Lankans living in New Zealand [51] among those 9,171 were Sinhalese. [52] In the U.S., the Sinhalese number about 12,000 people.
[14] [15] [16] Another study has also found "no significant genetic variation among the major ethnic groups in Sri Lanka". [17] This is further supported by a study which found very similar frequencies of alleles MTHFR 677T, F2 20210A & F5 1691A in Indian Tamil, Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamil, and Sri Lankan Moor populations. [7]
Sri Lankans have been migrating to Britain for several generations, up from the time of British ruled Ceylon (started in the 19th century). They include Sri Lankans of all ethnicities and backgrounds and boast a large population in the country. [citation needed] In 2021, the estimated population of the UK born in Sri Lanka was 131,000. [2]
With both the Sri Lankan Tamils and Sinhalese in the island sharing a common gene pool of 55%. They are farthest from the indigenous Veddahs . [ 1 ] This is also supported by a genetic distance study, which showed low differences in genetic distance between Tamils and the Sinhalese. [ 2 ]
Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon, [b] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
Another study on maternal haplogroups in Sri Lankan groups (also the Vedda, Sri Lankan Tamil, and Sinhalese) found similar results, with the Vedda belonging predominantly to the mitochondrial haplogroup N (which "exists in almost all European, Oceanian, and many Asian and Amerindian populations.") and its subgroups U and R (with those ...
Dravidians form the predominant ethnolinguistic group in southern India, the northern and eastern regions of Sri Lanka and a small pocket of Pakistan. [12] The Iranic peoples also have a significant presence in South Asia, the large majority of whom are located in Afghanistan and the northwestern and western parts of Pakistan.