Sinhalese

Asiaintensive agriculturalists
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The Sinhalese are the dominant ethnic group in Sri Lanka. They live primarily in the wetter zones of Sri Lanka in the central, south, and west provinces. Most of Sri Lanka is rural and subsistence agriculture supplemented by some wage-labor is characteristic of much of the Sinhalese population. The Sinhalese are primarily Theravada Buddhists and speak Sinhala, an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan group of languages.

Identifier
Region
  • Asia
Subregion
  • South Asia
Subsistence Type
  • intensive agriculturalists
Samples
Countries
  • Sri Lanka
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