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Sri Lankan Moors (trace ancestry to Arab traders who settled in Sri Lanka and native Tamil women) Iraqi biradri - a community of Muslims in north India (trace ancestry from Arab tribe of Bani Tamim) Labbay Arab traders who settled in South India; Konkani Muslims trace their ancestry to Arab traders. Mappila Muslims trace their ancestry to Arab ...
Sri Lankan New Zealanders comprised 3% of the Asian population of New Zealand in 2001. [52] The numbers arriving continued to increase, and at the 2018 census there were over 16,000 Sri Lankans living in New Zealand [53] among those 9,171 were Sinhalese. [54] In the U.S., the Sinhalese number about 12,000 people.
Sri Lanka, [f] historically known as Ceylon, [g] 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.
Sri Lankan Tamils. Sri Lankan Moors. Burgher people Sri Lankan Malays. Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka. Colombo Chetties. See also. List of Sri Lankan people ...
"Desi" in Western English usage generally pertains to North Indian culture, not South Indian culture. It's so restrictive that it even led to the emergence of the hashtag, #SouthIndianAndProud due to the restrictive nature of "Desi". Sri Lankans (both Sinhalese and Tamils) are culturally related to South Indians (Kerala and Tamil Nadu).
Sri Lankan-Canadian Tamil children in traditional clothes in Canada. After the start of the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, there was a mass migration of Tamils trying to escape the hardships and perils of war. Initially, it was middle class professionals, such as doctors and engineers, who ...
Sri Lankan Chetty, also known as Colombo Chetties, Colombo Chittis or Colombo Hetties, are a formerly endogamous Sri Lankan social group or caste. Colombo Chetty are mostly Roman Catholics or Anglicans and are found in almost all niches of Sri Lankan society. Members trace their origins to traders of various ethnicities from South India.
The South Asian diaspora, also known as the Desi diaspora, [1] is the group of people whose ancestral origins lie in South Asia, but who live outside the region. [2] There are over 44 million people in this diaspora.