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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Coast Verdas or East Coast Veddas. Anthropologists have considered them to be at least partly descended from the Veddas of the interior of the island...
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Look up Vedda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vedda may refer to: Vedda people, an indigenous people of Sri Lanka Vedda language, their language,...
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She is venerated as Maha Loku Kiriammaleththo by the Veddas. Other names for her varying with Veddas habitats are Indigolle Kiriamma, Unapane Kiriamma,...
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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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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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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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Cyrtodactylus vedda is a species of gecko that is endemic to Sri Lanka. Cyrtodactylus vedda at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 July 2022...
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Calyptomyrmex vedda is a species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae, which can be found in Sri Lanka. "Calyptomyrmex vedda - Facts". AntWeb. Retrieved...
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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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during the time of the Buddha. The most closely related languages are the Vedda language (an endangered, indigenous creole still spoken by a minority of...
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culture there. They published a jointly-authored book on this work, The Veddas, in 1911. In 1909 they were undertaking anthropological work in Sudan and...
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creoles Andaman Creole Hindi Bombay Hindi Haflong Hindi Nagamese Nefamese Vedda See also Indo-Iranian languages Nuristani languages Iranian languages...
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part of the "Archaic Caucasoid race", along with Ainus, Dravidians and Veddas. After discussing various criteria used in biology to define subspecies...
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Kande Yakka (category Vedda)
indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka. Local Veddas near Kataragama temple believe that the nearby mountain peak of Vaedihitti Kande (The Mountain of Veddas) was...
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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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romantically or sexually frustrated, and are ritually exorcised. The Coast Veddas, a social group within the minority group of Sri Lankan Tamil people in...
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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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creoles Andaman Creole Hindi Bombay Hindi Haflong Hindi Nagamese Nefamese Vedda See also Indo-Iranian languages Nuristani languages Iranian languages...
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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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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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Tibetan Neo-Buddhism list Other Ayyavazhi Kalash Jainism Digambara Śvetāmbara Sarnaism Kirat Mundhum Vedda religions Ravidassia Sikhism Khalsa Sects...
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The Vedda worm snake (Indotyphlops veddae), also known commonly as Veddha's blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species...
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the flora and fauna and the aborigines of the island, the Veddas. His studies on the Veddas made him and expert on this little understood people. Based...
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creoles Andaman Creole Hindi Bombay Hindi Haflong Hindi Nagamese Nefamese Vedda See also Indo-Iranian languages Nuristani languages Iranian languages...
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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 the...
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romanized: Katirkāmam) is a pilgrimage town sacred to Buddhist, Hindu and indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka. People from South India also go there to worship. The...
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creoles Andaman Creole Hindi Bombay Hindi Haflong Hindi Nagamese Nefamese Vedda See also Indo-Iranian languages Nuristani languages Iranian languages...
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creoles Andaman Creole Hindi Bombay Hindi Haflong Hindi Nagamese Nefamese Vedda See also Indo-Iranian languages Nuristani languages Iranian languages...
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