Sri Lankan Malay People (; are Sri Lankans with full or partial ancestry from the Indonesian/Malaysian/Singaporean (most of whom are from Indonesia of Betavian descent and some of them actually from  Arab origins of Hadhramawth Southern Arabia full or partial who came to trade  in Batavia [Old Jakrta of Dutch colonial period]). The term is a misnomer as it is used as a historical catch-all term for all native ethnic groups of the Malay Archipelago who reside in Sri Lanka; the term does not apply solely to the ethnic Malays. They number approximately 40,000 and make up 0.2\% of the Sri Lankan population, making them the fourth largest of the five main ethnic groups in the country.
Sri Lankan Malay People (; are Sri Lankans with full or partial ancestry from the Indonesian/Malaysian/Singaporean (most of whom are from Indonesia of Betawian descent and some of them actually from full or partial ancestry of Arab origins of Hadhramawth Southern Arabia = Southern part of present day of Yemen who came for trading in Batavia [Old Jakrta of Dutch colonial period]). The term is a misnomer as it is used as a historical catch-all term for all native ethnic groups of the Malay Archipelago who reside in Sri Lanka; the term does not apply solely to the ethnic Malays. They number approximately 40,000 and make up 0.2\% of the Sri Lankan population, making them the fourth largest of the five main ethnic groups in the country.
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Betavian
Betawian
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full or partial ancestry of
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Southern Arabia full or partial who came to trade
Southern Arabia = Southern part of present day of Yemen
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who came for trading