Ethnicity, Language, & Religion of Singapore
Ethnicity
Singapore is dominated by the ethnic Han Chinese, but many citizens are also Mandarin Chinese or a combination of these two. The next largest ethnic groups in Singapore are the Malays, a group related to the Polynesians, and Indians.
Language
Singapore has a couple official languages, of which Mandarin Chinese is the most common as just over a third of the people are native Mandarin speakers. English, another official language, is natively spoken by about 25% of the population and Malay, another official language, is natively spoken by about 15% of the population. The final official language is Tamil, which is only spoken by about 3% of the population. The breakdown of who speaks what language is fairly consistent with the ethnic breakdown, although some variations exist. Nearly all of native Mandarin speakers are ethnic Chinese, most of the Tamil speakers are ethnic Indians, the Malay speaker are generally ethnic Malays, while the native English speakers tend to be any number of ethnicities.