 Interestingly, one can also notice ethno-regional variations in SLMT and categorize them into two major sub-dialects such as North-Eastern Muslim Tamil (NEMT) and Southern Muslim Tamil (SMT).SMT is found in the Southern, Western and Central provinces with some variations and other linguistic features within it.As an example, Muslims in the Western province, especially in Colombo tend to code-mix their speech with Tamil and English terms.