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6 Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka. 7 Colombo Chetties. ... List of Sri Lankan people ... List of Sri Lankans by ethnicity.
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.
Pages in category "Lists of Sri Lankan people by ethnicity" ... List of Sri Lankans by ethnicity; B. List of Burgher people; I. List of Indians in Sri Lanka; M.
Sri Lankan Tamil people (8 C, 571 P) V. Vedda (1 C, 8 P) ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The form of Buddhism in Sri Lanka is known as Theravada (school of elders). The Pali chronicles (e.g., the Mahavansa) claim that the Sinhalese as an ethnic group are destined to preserve and protect Buddhism. In 1988 almost 93% of the Sinhala-speaking population in Sri Lanka were Buddhist. [61]
Burgher people, also known simply as Burghers, are a small Eurasian ethnic group in Sri Lanka descended from Portuguese, Dutch, British [2] [3] and other Europeans who settled in Ceylon. [4] The Portuguese and Dutch had held some of the maritime provinces of the island for centuries before the advent of the British Empire .
African Sri Lankans, mainly the Sri Lanka Kaffirs, are a very small Ethnic group in Sri Lanka who are descendants of African mercenaries, musicians, and labourers taken to what is now Sri Lanka by Portuguese colonists during the period of Portuguese colonial rule on the island. [3] There are currently around 1,000 African Sri Lankans.
Media uses the word "Sinhalisation" to refer to the process by which the Sri Lankan government funded and sponsored the settlement of Sinhala people in areas traditionally inhabited by Tamils in the north and east of Sri Lanka [16] in order to make the Tamils the minority in the region. Some reports claims that the Sinhalese and Sinhala ...