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Give the account of ethinic composition of sri lanka?(3 mark) |
| Answer» Sri Lanka comprises of various communities and diverse population which signifies its complex ethnicity like;(i) Sinhala speaking accounts for 74 per cent of total population, enjoys majoritarian status in the country.(ii) The another community is Tamil speaking which has two sub-groups;(iii) The Sri Lankan Tamils which account 13 percent. They are the native of Sri Lanka.(iv) The Indian Tamils account 5 per cent. They are of Indian origin.(v) About 7 percent are Christians of both Tamil and Sinhaias.(vi) Rest 1 percent are Muslims. | |