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Sinhalese people not Indo Aryan?

Are the Sinhalese people Indo Aryan people's or not,the page states that they are the descendants of the settlers from Bengal/ east India but unlike the other pages of South Asian ethnic groups it doesn't state whether they are Indo Aryan,Dravidian or Mongoloid, compare with pages like Malayali, Bengali or Punjabi where each one clearly states to which group they belong. Omega 9 (talk) 07:38, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Omega 9: The Sinhala language is classified as Indo-Aryan but Sinhalese people, like most people, are a mixture. It's pure myth to say that they are Indo-Aryan.--Obi2canibe (talk) 20:26, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So shouldn't they be removed from list of Indo Aryan peoples, if they are as you claim. Obviously all peoples are related to one another but when compared to other ethnic groups tHey share more Indo-European ancestry hence why they have been classified as such. Likewise shouldn't tHe other Wikipedia pages about Indo-Aryan which claim to be Indo Aryan correct themselves. Similarly wouldn't this be the case for Dravidian and mongoloid ethnic groups as well (Wikipedia articles) Omega 9 (talk) 05:29, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Simply state them to be Indo-Aryan speakers, that should be enough. The argument has been going on for years, just leave it at that. Hzh (talk) 10:06, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is getting beyond ridiculous. We either keep it as "Indo-Aryan-speaking" or we remove it altogether. Omega 9 (talk · contribs) is borderline edit warring at this point and it's getting ridiculous. This user is refusing to engage in discussion and insisting that "Indo-Aryan" is a racial category. Since when? Like I said before, we either keep it as "Indo-Aryan-speaking" or we remove it altogether. (2001:8003:4E6B:7F00:6939:6330:1A03:8DBD (talk) 12:33, 8 February 2020 (UTC))[reply]