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Muslims in Sri Lanka is a different group (We called them Sri Lanka Moors (9%)), some of them speak Tamil some others speak Sinhala or both. They aren't look like Tamil ethnic, their skin tone isn't black/dark skin tone. Sri Lanka Moor ethnic group includes people from Arabic region and some Muslims from Indian subcontinent. so there are some differences too.

Tamils in Sri Lanka categorize into two groups. Officially, Indian Tamils and Sri Lankan Tamils.
TN Tamils who bought here by British era, we called them Indian Tamils. They represent 4% of Sri Lankan population.

TN Tamils who came here before the British era we called them as Sri Lankan Tamils (11%). This group includes Tamils bought here by dutch, Tamils who invade here with south Indian rulers, Tamils who bought here by some Sinhala kings & natural flow..
Average Sri Lankan Tamils are somewhat fair skin tone holders than Indian Tamil group in here. Both groups are mainly Hindu or catholic.

Sinhalese are mainly Buddhists and then catholic.
Tamils are mainly Hindu and then catholic.
But it's somewhat rare to find Sinhalese or Tamil who are a Muslim.

 

[abjktu]

You hit a break here mate. Veddah is one offshoot of the ancient humans of Sri Lanka. The other being the non forest dueling people who consisted of the earlier four hela tribes which formed the backbone of Sinhalese race.

what about vijaya and his followers,then??i read that they were the first ancestors of Sinhalese???

 

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what about vijaya and his followers,then??i read that they were the first ancestors of Sinhalese???

"Sinhalese" means just a name change of the people who lived in the island. It happened with the Vijaya's incident. 4 Hela groups got united then became "Sinhala".

Sinhala = Siv + Hela (Siv means 4, Hela means belong to island.)

 

[manlion]

"Sinhalese" means just a name change of the people who lived in the island. It happened with the Vijaya's incident. 4 Hela groups got united then became "Sinhala".

Sinhala = Siv + Hela (Siv means 4, Hela means belong to island.)

BS - The Sinhala = Sinha ("lion") + Hela ( pristine"). translates to "lion people", the SL flag is testimony to the lion racial reference

 

[Mike_Brando]

"Sinhalese" means just a name change of the people who lived in the island. It happened with the Vijaya's incident. 4 Hela groups got united then became "Sinhala".

Sinhala = Siv + Hela (Siv means 4, Hela means belong to island.)

So mate what's your take in this situation?I mean India once tried to mediate but failed miserably and now our leaders are following a policy of not interfering with the internal matters of S.L.So do you think that our relation can be mended in the near future and can we be allies too?
P.S.-Just asking for your opinion mate as you are a Sinhala

 

[HeinzG]

what about vijaya and his followers,then??i read that they were the first ancestors of Sinhalese???

People just used to the idea of Vijaya being the first Sinhalese. But the modern archeology indicate otherwise. Indeed Vijaya and his fellow countrymen made a huge political and social change in early native society but they are not Sinhalese when they landed in Sri Lanka.

Sinhalese is a ethnicity formed within the island of Sri Lanka.

 

[manlion]

everyone is foreign to Sri Lanka except for the four native tribes.

the 4 were proto Dravidians (ex Tamils)

 

[HeinzG]

BS - The Sinhala = Sinha ("lion") + Hela ( pristine"). translates to "lion people", the SL flag is testimony to the lion racial reference

Lion is just a symbol to represent Sinhalese people. It is our national emblem for 1000s of years. It was also our royal standard.

the 4 were proto Dravidians (ex Tamils)

How can you say Proto Dravidians are ex Tamils? Malayalis are also from proto Dravida lineage are they also ex Tamils?

 

[manlion]

Lion is just a symbol to represent Sinhalese people. It is our national emblem for 1000s of years. It was also our royal standard.

omg , how you guys bluff , on what basis is the lion used as a symbol of the people ? (except for the Mahavamsa reference of the Lion race- Sinhala) , as the Lion is not native to SL (or Bangladesh, the ancestral home of Sinhala mob)

 

[HeinzG]

omg , how you guys bluff , on what basis is the lion used as a symbol of the people ? (except for the Mahavamsa reference of the Lion race- Sinhala) , as the Lion is not native to SL (or Bangladesh, the ancestral home of Sinhala mob)

Well first of all Vijaya IMHO must have come from Gujrat not Bengal.

Second there were lions in Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lanka Lion (Panthera leo sinhaleyus), also known as the Ceylon Lion, was a prehistoric subspecies of lion, endemic to Sri Lanka. It appears to have become extinct prior to the arrival of culturally modern humans, c. 37,000 years BC.

Sri Lanka lion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

BTW why not we cannot use Lion as our symbol when Bhutan and Wales use dragons as there emblems..?

 

[manlion]

Well first of all Vijaya IMHO must have come from Gujrat not Bengal.

Second there were lions in Sri Lanka.

Modi wave ? now its Gujarat and not Bangladesh .... you are contradicting the Mahavamsa chronicles

BTW why not we cannot use Lion as our symbol when Bhutan and Wales use dragons as there emblems..?

sure you can, but admit that Sinhala = Lion people and not make up stories

 

[abjktu]

"Sinhalese" means just a name change of the people who lived in the island. It happened with the Vijaya's incident. 4 Hela groups got united then became "Sinhala".

Sinhala = Siv + Hela (Siv means 4, Hela means belong to island.)

so there were Sinhalese people,even before the arrival of vijaya and his clans???

People just used to the idea of Vijaya being the first Sinhalese. But the modern archeology indicate otherwise. Indeed Vijaya and his fellow countrymen made a huge political and social change in early native society but they are not Sinhalese when they landed in Sri Lanka.

Sinhalese is a ethnicity formed within the island of Sri Lanka.

thankz...

 

[HeinzG]

so there were Sinhalese people,even before the arrival of vijaya and his clans???

We cannot exactly say what were they called. But the Sinhalese society grew from the native tribes and from migration/invasion from India.

 

[abjktu]

Lion is just a symbol to represent Sinhalese people. It is our national emblem for 1000s of years. It was also our royal standard.



How can you say Proto Dravidians are ex Tamils? Malayalis are also from proto Dravida lineage are they also ex Tamils?

Dravidan means 'a language group',not a race or ethnicity...like indo-aryan,latin..etc....
yes,Malayalam is the closest relative of Tamils,but culture wise we malayalis are more closer to thulus and konkanis of Malabar coast...we have nothing common with tamils of Tamilnadu...

 

[HeinzG]

Dravidan means 'a language group',not a race or ethnicity...like indo-aryan,latin..etc....
yes,Malayalam is the closest relative of Tamils,but culture wise we malayalis are more closer to thulus and konkanis of Malabar coast...we have nothing common with tamils of Tamilnadu...

I thought Dravidian means an ethnicity. Are you sure about Dravidian means only the language group?

If that's the case Sinhalese are not Dravidian.

Modi wave ? now its Gujarat and not Bangladesh .... you are contradicting the Mahavamsa chronicles

Mahawansa does not say where did Vijaya had set sail from. That is why it is a intellectual debate now a days.

sure you can, but admit that Sinhala = Lion people and not make up stories

Why not Sinhala should not equal to lion people. Any one can come up with any story to increase the moral and other values of the society.