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    social group Coast Veddahs, Coast Verdas or East Coast Veddas. Anthropologists have considered them to be at least partly descended from the Veddas of the interior...
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    other sub-communities such as Coast Veddas, Anuradhapura Veddas and Bintenne Veddas, are accorded indigenous status. The Vedda minority in Sri Lanka may become...
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    such as Coast Veddas and Anuradhapura Veddas who do not strictly identify as Veddas also use words from the Vedda language in part for communication during...
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  • various groups of people who claim Vedda ancestry. They are also ethnically related to Tamil speaking Coast Veddas who live in the minority Sri Lankan...
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  • romantically or sexually frustrated, and are ritually exorcised. The Coast Veddas, a social group within the minority group of Sri Lankan Tamil people...
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  • castes and listed as their own ethnicities in Sri Lankan census. The Coast Veddas, found mainly in Eastern Sri Lanka are considered a Tamil caste among...
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    Kataragama temple (category Vedda)
    The Veddas who have kept out of the mainstream culture of Sri Lanka do not subscribe to Kataragama deviyo as their deity. Unassimilated Veddas consider...
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  • historical migrations, about half of the Akan population reside in Ivory Coast. Some time around 1860s, many Akha have been migrating to Myanmar, Laos...
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  • seatraders, were listed as their own ethnicities in Sri Lankan census. The Coast Veddas, found mainly in Eastern Sri Lanka were considered a Tamil caste among...
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  • physically closest to the aboriginal Veddas. Like the prehistoric people of the island, historical sources describe the Veddas as hunter-gatherers, who inhabited...
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    although its use has declined and the majority now speak Sinhala. The Veddas speak Vedda, a Creole language closely based on Sinhala. Use of English has declined...
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  • ISBN 978-1-85065-033-1. OCLC 21523218. Sinhala-Tamil Nationalism and Sri Lanka’s East Coast Veddas The future of (Sri Lankan)Tamil nationalism Sinhala nationalism and its...
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  • where he promoted social advancement of the Coast Veddas and an isolated group known as the Bintenne Veddas who had been marginalised by other ethnic groups...
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  • Dart, Jon Anderson (1985). Ethnic Identity and Marginality Among the Coast Veddas of Sri Lanka. University of California, San Diego. p. 83. McGilvray,...
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    related to Robert Knox at Wikimedia Commons Robert Knox's 1681 account of the Veddas Other sites in Sri Lanka. Works by Robert Knox at Project Gutenberg Works...
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    Lankan Tamils others include Moors, Sinhalese, Burghers and the indigenous Veddas population. The District of Batticaloa itself consists of several administrative...
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    descend directly from "Negritos" as such. Groups ancestral to the modern Veddas were probably the earliest inhabitants of Sri Lanka. Their arrival is dated...
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    deities, venerated by Hindu Tamils. The Buddhist Sinhalese and Aboriginal Veddas venerate the local rendition of the deity, Katharagama deviyo. Yogaswami...
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    was republished up to 1979. Melanesians of British New Guinea (1910) The Veddas (1911), with Brenda Seligman Some Aspects of the Hamitic Problem in the...
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    Tibetan Neo-Buddhism list Other Ayyavazhi Kalash Jainism Digambara Śvetāmbara Sarnaism Kirat Mundhum Vedda religions Ravidassia Sikhism Khalsa Sects...
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  • with the new song, it was announced officially that Justin Kyle and Don Vedda had been added as touring vocalist and rhythm guitarist, respectively. On...
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    groups include the Moors, Indian Tamils, Burghers, Malays, Chinese, and Vedda. Sri Lanka's documented history goes back 3,000 years, with evidence of...
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  • Russenorsk Africa West African Pidgin English (multiple varieties) (Guinea Coast) Kru Pidgin English Liberian Interior Pidgin English Nigerian Pidgin Cameroonian...
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    on the island since at least around the 2nd century BCE. The Indigenous Veddas are ethnically related to people in South India and early populations of...
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    uncontacted Sentinelese of North Sentinel Island. In Sri Lanka, the Indigenous Vedda people constitute a small minority of the population today. Ainu people...
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    Sinhalese kingdoms in the south. Traditionally the forest regions were ruled by Vedda rulers. Later on, the emergence of these chieftaincies was a direct result...
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    Gilgit–Baltistan (administered by Pakistan), Kusunda (in western Nepal), and Vedda (in Sri Lanka).: 283  The validity of the Great Andamanese language group...
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  • featuring ex-Saosin and Dead American frontman Cove Reber on vocals, Don Vedda on lead guitar and Jordan Flower on bass. The tour lasted from January 13...
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  • Tibetan Neo-Buddhism list Other Ayyavazhi Kalash Jainism Digambara Śvetāmbara Sarnaism Kirat Mundhum Vedda religions Ravidassia Sikhism Khalsa Sects...
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    Tibetan Neo-Buddhism list Other Ayyavazhi Kalash Jainism Digambara Śvetāmbara Sarnaism Kirat Mundhum Vedda religions Ravidassia Sikhism Khalsa Sects...
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