Major languages spoken- Sinhala ( also called Sinhalese or Singhalese).
Is a mother tongue of the Sinhalese ethnic group which is largest in Sri Lanka. It belonged to to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo- European languages. Sinhala is spoken by about 16 million people in Sri Lanka, 13 million are native speakers. Sinhala is one of the recognised languages of Sri Lanka, along with Tamil. Tamil is a classical language and the oldest of the of the Dravidian language family spoken by Tamils in India, Malaysia and Singapore.
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