Official Languages

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Languages spoken here

Dhivehi (secondary) · Gujarati (secondary) · Javanese (secondary) · Javanese (Aksara Jawa) (secondary) · Konkani (secondary) · Malayalam (secondary) · Sindhi (secondary) · Sri Lankan Sign Language (secondary) · Tamil (secondary) · Telugu (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Sri Lanka

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Wahumpura	8952000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Vellalan	1314000	Tamil	Hinduism
Navandanna	1266000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Tamil (Muslim traditions)	1244000	Tamil	Islam
Karava	1175000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Gattara	830000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Durava	792000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Sri Lanka Moor	745000	Tamil	Islam
Govigama	609000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Batgama	413000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Berava	404000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Radava	397000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Hannali	364000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Salagama	340000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Pannikki	265000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Hinna	265000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Koviar	231000	Tamil	Hinduism
Shaikh	220000	Tamil	Islam
Karaiyar	213000	Tamil	Hinduism
Maravan	203000	Tamil	Hinduism
Paraiyan (Hindu traditions)	189000	Tamil	Hinduism
Rajaka	163000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Vanniyan	149000	Tamil	Hinduism
Pallan (Hindu traditions)	126000	Tamil	Hinduism
Badahala	124000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Brahmin unspecified	118000	Tamil	Hinduism
Hunna	99000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Kaikolan	86000	Tamil	Hinduism
Yamannu	85000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Primanar	79000	Tamil	Hinduism
Ilavan	75000	Tamil	Hinduism
Deaf	74000	Sri Lankan Sign Language	Unknown
Ahinkuntaya	66000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Porowakara	65000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Burgher	57000	Sinhala	Christianity
Malay, Javar	56000	Sri Lankan Malay Creole	Islam
Tamil (Hindu traditions)	55000	Tamil	Hinduism
Sayyid	54000	Tamil	Islam
Nalavar	48000	Tamil	Hinduism
Mukkuvan (Hindu traditions)	47000	Tamil	Hinduism
Vannan (Hindu traditions)	46000	Tamil	Hinduism
Pashtun, Pathan	45000	Tamil	Islam
Dodda-Weddah	41000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Panna	35000	Tamil	Hinduism
Palla	35000	Tamil	Hinduism
Pamunu	33000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Oli	33000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Kinnara	31000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Govigama Radala	30000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Govigama Patti	30000	Sinhala	Buddhism

Languages

14 languages recorded here.

Arabic, Mesopotamian

Gujarati

Javanese

Konkani

Language unknown

Malayalam

Maldivian

Morisyen

Sindhi

Sinhala

Sri Lankan Malay Creole

Sri Lankan Sign Language

Tamil

Telugu

All catalogue fields

158 fields recorded

rog3: CE
iso3: LKA
iso2: LK
ctry: Sri Lanka
poplpeoples: 23142000
cntpeoples: 127
cntpeopleslr: 54
poplpeopleslr: 3976000
jpscalectry: 2
rol3officiallanguage: sin
officiallang: Sinhala
rlg3primary: 2
religionprimary: Buddhism
percentchristianity: 7.2658269801594
c_10_40window: Y
rog2: ASI
continent: Asia
regioncode: 4
regionname: Asia, South
workersneeded: 111
harvest_rog3: CE
harvest_iso3: LKA
harvest_iso2: LK
harvest_owcountrycode: SRIL
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: LK
harvest_countrynumber: 197
harvest_ctry: Sri Lanka
harvest_ctryshort: Sri Lanka
harvest_altname: Ceylon
harvest_countrynamechinese: 斯里兰卡
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 斯里兰卡
harvest_countrynamedutch: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynamefrench: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynamegerman: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynamehindi: श्री लंका
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynameitalian: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynamekorean: 스리랑카
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 스리랑카
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Stri Lanka
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Stri Lanka
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynamerussian: Шри-Ланка
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Шри-Ланка
harvest_countrynamespanish: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynamespanishshort: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynamevietnamese: Sri Lanka
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort: Sri Lanka
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix: 在
harvest_frenchconcatenationprefix: du
harvest_germanconcatenationprefix: in
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix: di
harvest_italianconcatenationprefix: -
harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix: 의
harvest_norwegianconcatenationprefix: i
harvest_portugueseconcatenationprefix: no
harvest_russianconcatenationprefix: B
harvest_spanishconcatenationprefix: en
harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
harvest_ethnologuemapexists: Y
harvest_southasia: Y
harvest_rog2: ASI
harvest_regioncode2414: 20
harvest_regioncode: 4
harvest_unsr: 034
harvest_worldabc: B
harvest_capital: Colombo
harvest_population: 23229000
harvest_populationsource: UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo: https://prayercast.com/sri-lanka.html
harvest_waldnerguide: prayer-guide-ce+mv.pdf
harvest_unmap: https://un.org/geospatial/content/sri-lanka
harvest_jpscale: 2
harvest_c_10_40window: Y
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal: N
harvest_biblerestrictionsrank: 75
harvest_bibleshortagerank: 39
harvest_bibleaccessurl: https://www.bibleaccesslist.org/profiles/LK_2025_profile.pdf
harvest_owpctevang: 1.2
harvest_owpctcharismatic: 1.5715433
harvest_owevangelicalgrowthrate: 2.3
harvest_owcountrypage: sri-lanka
harvest_literacyrate: 95
harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized: 19
harvest_rol3officiallanguage: sin
harvest_rol3secondarylanguage: eng
harvest_rlg3primary: 2
harvest_pctanimist: 0
harvest_pctbahai: 0.07000000000000001
harvest_pctbuddhism: 70.02
harvest_pctchinese: 0
harvest_pcthindu: 12.8
harvest_pctislam: 8.52
harvest_pctsikh: 0.01
harvest_pctjudaism: 0
harvest_pctnonreligious: 0.2
harvest_pctother: 0
harvest_pctchristian: 8.380000000000001
harvest_pctchristianprotestant: 8.380000000000001
harvest_pctchristianindependent: 0.6899999999999999
harvest_pctchristiananglican: 0.16
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic: 7.08
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 0
harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 0.05
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 0
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: -0.199999990200856
harvest_pctchristianother: 0
harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A012
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
harvest_hdivalue: 0.766
harvest_hdirank: 73
harvest_internetusers: 32.1
harvest_flashmapzoom: 721
harvest_flashmapzoomx: -448
harvest_flashmapzoomy: -310
harvest_googlemapzoom: 7
harvest_googlemaplat: 7.8
harvest_googlemaplng: 80.5
harvest_ctrylatitude: 7.873054
harvest_ctrylongitude: 80.77179700000001
harvest_securitylevel: 1
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/sri-lanka/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 202
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 0.4516842054682619
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=lk&joshua=ce
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-sri-lanka
harvest_internetusage: 34
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2017
harvest_pray1040url: https://pray1040.com/pray-for-sri-lanka/
harvest_voiceofmartyrsurl: https://www.persecution.com/globalprayerguide/sri-lanka/
harvest_biblesocietyurl: http://www.ceylonbiblesociety.org/cbs/
harvest_areasquaremiles: 25332
harvest_areasquarekilometers: 65610
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 774
harvest_countryphonecode: 94
harvest_wincountryprofile: http://win1040.com/page.php?id=613
harvest_owpctchristian1986: 7.4
harvest_owpctevangelical1986: 0.2
harvest_owpctchristian1993: 7.6
harvest_owpctevangelical1993: 0.4
harvest_owpctchristian2001: 7.62
harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 1.3
harvest_stonyground: Y
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .lk
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/sri-lanka
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00