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a race of indo-aryans originating from northern india, who have migrated to the island nation of sri lanka. sri lanka is the only country known to have their language, sinhala as an official language, in which they have developed their own pop culture of music, movies, and television shows. Most of the population inhabit the southern parts of sri lanka and the eastern parts as the northern and western parts are inhabited by the largest minority group on the island, the tamils. sinhalese people range from deep dark tones to light brown tones of skin colour. they compromise the largest ethnic group on the island of sri lanka.
what is your ethnicity?

i am sinhalese.
by Matrix-Fan May 21, 2011
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