During riots targeting speakers of this language, victims were identified by their pronunciation of a word for “bucket.” Colvin R. de Silva told listeners “do you want two languages and one nation, or one language and two nations?” in a speech attacking policies discriminating against this language. A non-Canadian Official Languages Act passed in 1956 limited education access to speakers of this language, despite the provisions of the Soulbury Constitution. A series of 1983 pogroms dubbed (*) Black July targeted speakers of this language. Despite being native speakers of this language, over 70,000 members of a Muslim community called the Moors were expelled from Jaffna. A speaker of this language strapped herself with an RDX-laden belt to carry out the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. For 10 points, the largest ethnic minority in Sri Lanka speaks what Dravidian language? ■END■
ANSWER: Tamil [or Thamizh]
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