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While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
List of Sri Lankans by ethnicity. Add languages ... Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka ... See also. List of Sri Lankan people This page was last edited on 29 February ...
[31] [32] According to the Mahavamsa and other historical sources, King Vijaya arrived on the island of Tambapanni (Sri Lanka) and gave rise to the Sinhalese. The story of the arrival of Prince Vijaya in Sri Lanka and the origin of the Sinhalese people is also depicted in the Ajanta caves, in a mural of cave number 17.
This is a list of Sinhalese people by their country of domicile or origin. All communities that speak Sinhalese or spoke Sinhalese and originally came from Sri Lanka are included. Sinhalese are the majority ethnic group in Sri Lanka.
In the Vedda people of Sri Lanka it reaches its highest frequency of 13.33% (subclade U7a). It is speculated that large-scale immigration carried these mitochondrial haplogroups into India. [26] Chaubey states that "considerable number of maternal lineages of Sri Lanka is shared with India, more precisely with southern part of India." [27]
Sri Lanka's population is aging faster than any other nation in South Asia and has the fifth highest rapidly growing population of older people in Asia after China, Thailand, South Korea and Japan. [16] [17] [18] In 2015, Sri Lanka's population aged over 60 was 13.9%, by 2030 this will increase to 21% and by 2050 this number will reach 27.4%.
Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka (16 C, 9 P) * Lists of Sri Lankan people by ethnicity (7 P) + Immigrants to Sri Lanka (9 C) A. Sri Lankan people of African descent (2 C, 1 P)
Lists of Sri Lankan people by ethnicity (7 P) A. African diaspora in Sri Lanka ... Political parties of minorities in Sri Lanka (2 C, 2 P) S. Sinhalese people (5 C ...