Modern population

Sinhala

Sinhala

Sinhala is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sinhala), with 5 samples.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Tamil Sri Lanka, Maratha and Sri Lankan, and among ancient ones Tamils GBR, Telugu GBR and Shahr I Sokhta BA3 (Bronze Age).

Period
Modern
Samples
5
Catalogue
Sinhala

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Tamil Sri LankaTamil_Sri_Lanka1.27
2MarathaMaratha1.36
3Sri LankanSri_Lankan1.66
4Konkani Christian BKonkani_Christian_B1.78
5Yadav TeluguYadav_Telugu1.84
6YadavaYadava1.84
7Punjabi Christian IndiaPunjabi_Christian_India1.89
8PiramalaiPiramalai1.93
9Piramalai KallarPiramalai_Kallar1.93
10DusadhDusadh1.97
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Tamils GBRTamils_GBR1.40
2Telugu GBRTelugu_GBR2.46
3Shahr I Sokhta BA3 (Bronze Age)Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA34.04
4Roopkund A (Medieval, India)India_RoopkundA5.41
5Shahr I Sokhta BA2 (Bronze Age)Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA28.14
6Indus P (Bronze Age)Indus_P8.32
7Baniya Chettiar KeralaBaniya_Chettiar_Kerala8.65
8Shahr ISokhta BA2 (Bronze Age, Iran)Iran_ShahrISokhta_BA29.89
9Katelai (Late Bronze Age)Katelai_LBA10.45
10Rajput Madhya Pradesh NorthRajput_Madhya_Pradesh_North11.55

Individuals 9

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average.

Sample
R03C01
R04C01
R06C01
R07C02
R08C02
R01C01 outlier
R05C01 outlier
R07C01 outlier
R08C01 outlier