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Theravada Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Roman Catholicism. Sri Lankan Americans (Sinhala: Sri Lankika Amerikanu, Tamil: Ilangkaī Amerikan) are Americans of full or partial Sri Lankan ancestry. Sri Lankan Americans are persons of Sri Lankan origin from various Sri Lankan ethnic backgrounds. The people are classified as South Asian in origin.
The Sinhalese people (Sinhala: සිංහල ජනතාව, romanized: Sinhala Janathāva), also known as the Sinhalese or Sinhala people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group native to the island of Sri Lanka. [15][16] They are the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, constituting about 75% of the Sri Lankan population and number more ...
Sri Lankan diaspora. The Sri Lankan diaspora are Sri Lankan emigrants and expatriates from Sri Lanka that reside in a foreign country. An estimate in 2013 by the United Nations concluded that the diaspora numbered around three million, with large concentrations in Europe, Middle East, East Asia, Australia and North America.
Anura C. Perera – science writer, astronomer. Nalin Samarasinha – astronomer, first Sri Lankan to have an asteroid named after him. Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah – Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Harvard University. Siva Sivananthan – professor, scientist and Director of the Microphysics Laboratory at the ...
Genetic studies on Sinhalese. The hypothesized migration routes of the ancestors of the Sinhalese and other ethnic groups into Sri Lanka. Genetic studies on the Sinhalese is part of population genetics investigating the origins of the Sinhalese population. All studies agree that there is a significant relationship between the Sinhalese and the ...
List of ethnic groups in the United States by household income. This is a list of median household income in the United States ranked by ethnicity and Native American tribal grouping (as of 2021) according to the United States Census. "Mixed race" (in combination with other races) and multi-ethnic categories are not listed separately.
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. All communities that speak Sinhalese or spoke Sinhalese and originally came from Sri Lanka are included.
The demographics of Asian Americans describe a heterogeneous group of people in the United States who trace their ancestry to one or more Asian countries. [1][2][3] Manilamen began to reside in Louisiana as the first Asian Americans to live in the continental in the United States. [4] Most Asian Americans have arrived after 1965. [5]