Datapoint Sri Lankan Malay/Proportion of native speakers
Most speakers are native speakers. There are, however, two groups of fluent non-native speakers.
The first group consists of non-native speakers who acquired the language after marrying native speakers. (This group used to be much larger than it is now.)
The second group consists of individuals who live in a predominantly Sri Lankan Malay-speaking area or who live in an adjacent area and have joined a Malay peer group. As examples, there is one family of Sinhala Buddhists living in the middle of Kirinda who are linguistically indistinguishable from Kirinda Malays when speaking Sri Lankan Malay. There are also young men from neighboring villages who speak excellent Sri Lankan Malay because of the friends they have and because of time spent with them in the village.
There are also individuals who married someone in the village and subsequently acquired fluent Sri Lankan Malay (and who therefore belong to both the first and the second group).
Values 
Most
- Confidence:
- Very certain