page_title: Sri Lankan Moors
hierarchical_section_title: Sri Lankan Moors
caption_attribution_description: English: Colonial era photo
context_page_description: Sri Lankan Moors are an ethnic minority group in Sri Lanka, comprising 9.2% of the country's total population. They are mainly native speakers of the Tamil language with influence of Sinhalese and Arabic words. They are predominantly followers of Islam. The Sri Lankan Muslim community is divided as Sri Lankan Moors, Indian Moors and Sri Lankan Malays as per their history and traditions.
  The Moors trace their ancestry to Arab traders who first settled in Sri Lanka around the 9th century who intermarried with local women. The concentration of Moors are the highest in the Ampara, Trincomalee and Batticaloa districts.
context_section_description: Sri Lankan Moors (Tamil: இலங்கைச் சோனகர், romanized: Ilaṅkaic Cōṉakar; Sinhala: ලංකා යෝනක, romanized: Lanka Yonaka; formerly Ceylon Moors; colloquially referred to as Muslims or Moors) are an ethnic minority group in Sri Lanka, comprising 9.2% of the country's total population. They are mainly native speakers of the Tamil language with influence of Sinhalese and Arabic words. They are predominantly followers of Islam. The Sri Lankan Muslim community is divided as Sri Lankan Moors, Indian Moors and Sri Lankan Malays as per their history and traditions.
  The Moors trace their ancestry to Arab traders who first settled in Sri Lanka around the 9th century who intermarried with local women. The concentration of Moors are the highest in the Ampara, Trincomalee and Batticaloa districts.
caption: 20th century Sri Lankan Moors
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