Sri Lankan Muslims (ethnic group)

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Sri Lankan Muslims (Tamil: இலங்கைச் சோனகர், romanized: Ilaṅkaic Cōṉakar; Arwi: اَیلَیچْ چٗونَكَرْ; Sinhala: ලංකා යෝනක, romanized: Lanka Yonaka; also known as Sri Lankan Moors (formerly Ceylon Moors) are an ethnic minority group in Sri Lanka, comprising 10.5% of the country's total population. Most Sri Lankan Muslims are native speakers of the Tamil language and followers of Sunni Islam, as understood by the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence. They are ethnically differentiated from Sri Lankan Tamils and Sri Lankan Malays. The majority of ethnic Muslims residing outside of Sri Lanka's Northern and Eastern provinces also speak Sinhalese as a second language.

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