Sinhalese (or Singhalese) is the language and people originating in north India now largely populating which country?
Sinhalese people seven hundred followers who arrived on the island in 543 BCE. Vijaya and his followers were said to have arrived in Sri Lanka after being exiled from the city of Sinhapura in Bengal. The modern Sinhalese people as said in the Mahavamsa were found to be most closely related to the people of North-East India (Bengal). It is thought throughout Sri Lanka's history, since the founding of the Sinhalese in the 5th century BC that an influx of Indians from North India came to the island. This is further supported from the Sinhalese language being part of the Indo-Aryan language
Sinhalese language to Dravidian influence are – "I know that it is new." "I do not know whether it is new." As a result of centuries of colonial rule, modern Sinhalese contains some Portuguese, Dutch and English loanwords. Macanese Patois or Macau Creole (known as "Patuá" to its speakers) is a creole language derived mainly from Malay, Sinhalese, Cantonese, and Portuguese, which was originally spoken by the Macanese people of the Portuguese colony of Macau. It is now spoken by a few families in Macau and in the Macanese diaspora. The language developed first mainly among the descendants of Portuguese settlers who