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Very good question. Well, genetically speaking,Maldives is 22% Arabs,24% Indo Europeans, 30 % Tamils or South Indians,5% East Asians,2 % East Africans. We cant identify percentage of Singhaleese ethnicity in Maldives becacuse singhalesee people genetically have Indo European genes about 13%.

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