Sri Lanka: Sinhalese migrated from South India, mixed heavily with Adivasi post-migration, genome study finds
Sinhalese chronicles and previous genetic studies had proposed that Sinhalese had migrated from northern or northwest India to Sri Lanka. But a recent whole genome study has found that genetic ancestries and their proportions in Adivasi and Sinhalese are most similar to Dravidian speaking populations who live in Southern India
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