• Vedda is an endangered language that is used by the indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka. Additionally, communities such as Coast Veddas and Anuradhapura...
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    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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    used during the time of the Buddha. The most closely related languages are the Vedda language (an endangered, indigenous creole still spoken by a minority...
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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, now...
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    vocabulary, language not attested) Harappan language (not attested in readable script; see Indus script) Lullubi language Vedda language Burushaski language Dravidian...
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    unclassified Harappan language small language families and isolates of the Indian subcontinent: Burushaski, Kusunda, and Nihali. The Vedda language of Sri Lanka...
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    trance or spirit possession sometimes use a mixed language that contains words from the Vedda language. Most Vedar are Hindu Saivites and worship a plethora...
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    Malay-based creole languages Ngbandi-based: Sango Portuguese-based creole languages Spanish-based creole languages Sinhala-based: Vedda language Swahili-based:...
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  • Lanka who are descendants of indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka who have adopted the culture, religion and language of the dominant Sinhalese residents...
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  • Dambana, Sri Lanka (category Vedda)
    Mahiyangana. It is known as the refuge of the indigenous Vedda people as well as their moribund Vedda language. It is well known for its eco-tourism projects,...
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    Dravidian language. It thus joins Burushaski, Nihali and (potentially) the substrate of the Vedda language in the list of South Asian languages that do...
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    Asia include Burushaski, a language spoken in Gilgit–Baltistan (administered by Pakistan), Kusunda (in western Nepal), and Vedda (in Sri Lanka).: 283  The...
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  • Indo-European–Uralic Romani–Estonian Laiuse Romani (extinct) Indo-European–Vedda Sinhalese–Vedda Vedda Indo-European–Algic French–Cree Michif Indo-European–Quechuan...
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  • Spirit possession (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    during trances they will sometimes use a mixed language that contains words from the Vedda language. In Bali, the animist traditions of the island include...
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  • or entirely unrelated groups". Harappan language Pre-Greek substrate Vedda language Indo-Aryan loanwords in Tamil Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni In modern...
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    The main languages spoken in Sri Lanka are Tamil and Sinhala. Several languages are spoken in Sri Lanka within the Indo-Aryan, Austronesian, and Dravidian...
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    Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily in the Konkan region, along the western coast of India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages mentioned...
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    is also home to a few language isolates, like Burushaski, Kusunda, Nihali, and Vedda. Areally, the influence of the languages extend beyond the subcontinent...
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    official languages of India; it is the official language of Odisha and the second official language of Jharkhand. Odia is the sixth Indian language to be...
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    Colombo (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    see) and kolamba (fort or harbour) as deriving from the indigenous Vedda language. Kolamba may also be the source of the name of the commercial capital...
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    Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. With approximately 240 million native speakers and another 41 million as second language speakers...
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    The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family. As of the early...
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    or Kudmali (ISO: Kuṛmāli) is an Indo-Aryan language classified as belonging to the Bihari group of languages spoken in eastern India. As a trade dialect...
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  • An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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    Sri Lankan Tamils (category Articles containing Tamil-language text)
    that they originally spoke as Vedda language is considered diverged from its original source (due to Sinhalese language influence). According to K. Indrapala...
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    literary language. In the past, it was the court language of the Ahom kingdom from the 17th century. Along with other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Assamese...
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    Sanskrit (redirect from Sanskrit Language)
    classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused...
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    ) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the official language of Maharashtra, and...
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    is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is one of the most widely spoken native languages in the world with approximately...
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    Urdu (redirect from Urdu Language)
    Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside...
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