• 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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    About 300 of the Veddah people, totaling barely 2,500 in 2002, speak the Veddah language, of which the origin is debated. The Tamil language is spoken by...
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    Vedda (redirect from Veddah)
    population of Vedda-gala and its environs. Ethnonyms of Vedda include Vadda, Veddah, Veddha and Vaddo. "Vedda" is either a Dravidian word that stems from the...
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  • have a sort of language of their own, a "sort of burbling, or birds' twittering," which a handful of Veddahs could understand. The Veddahs themselves were...
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    Kataragama deviyo (category Articles containing Sinhala-language text)
    indigenous Veddahs. Later Valli became the second consort of God Kataragama and transfigured as a deity. Till today the indigenous Veddah people come...
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    Brahmi script. The Rodiya language, a dialect of Sinhala, is spoken by the low-caste community of chamodi veddhas. The Veddah peoples, totaling barely...
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    Batticaloa (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    844 Moors, 6,127 were Sinhalese, 2,794 Burgher, 1,015 Indian Tamils, 58 Veddah, 16 Malay, and 3 Sri Lanka Chetty. The first educational institution[citation...
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    Valli (category Articles containing Tamil-language text)
    other. According to Sri Lankan mythology, the events occurred among the Veddah people near Kataragama, Sri Lanka. However, South Indian Puranas state that...
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  • Ali Kathawa (category Articles containing Sinhala-language text)
          Duleeka Marapana as Veddah Gomari          Rodney Warnakula as Kinnara leader     Sarath Kothalawala as Handuna veddah  Kumara Thirimadura as Gobila veddha...
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  • population into seven groups viz. Europeans, Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Malays, Veddahs and others. From the 1911 onwards "Nationality" was replaced with the word...
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  • Gemunu Wijesuriya (category Articles containing Sinhala-language text)
    Benjamin 1974 Duleeka 1977 Maruwa Samaga Wase Seema 1979 Muwan Palessa Veddah Mahathaya 1979 Handaya Abaran, Susie's husband 1980 Muwan Palessa 2 Gurunnnanse...
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    Coast Veddas (category Articles containing Tamil-language text)
    and Charles Gabriel Seligman (1911) have termed the social group Coast Veddahs, Coast Verdas or East Coast Veddas. Anthropologists have considered them...
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  • sharing a common gene pool of 55%. They are farthest from the indigenous Veddahs. This is also supported by a genetic distance study, which showed low differences...
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    Gotabaya Rajapaksa (category Articles containing Sinhala-language text)
    Archived from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 11 April 2021. "Veddah Chief's challenge of deforestation will be supported in Court of Appeal...
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  • 1902).[9] (Co-authored with H. M. Hiller, Jr.) Notes of a Trip to the Veddahs of Ceylon (London, 1902).[10] "The Stone Money of Uap, West Caroline Islands...
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    Sri Lankan Tamils (category Articles containing Tamil-language text)
    of South India. They were found to be the most distant group from the Veddahs, and quite distant from both North-West Indians (Punjabis and Gujratis)...
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  • This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with V. Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u |...
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    2022 Sri Lankan protests (category CS1 Sinhala-language sources (si))
    Face protest (Video)". NewsWire. 15 April 2022. Retrieved 16 April 2022. "Veddah community joins protest at Galle Face Green". www.adaderana.lk. Retrieved...
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  • The Ceylon Herald (category Defunct English-language newspapers published in Sri Lanka)
    Herald published an article alleging that the governor had gone to the Veddah country to purchase large amounts of land at nominal prices. Mackenzie Ross...
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    lives were also of unequal value, e.g., "These lower races (such as the Veddahs or Australian negroes) are psychologically nearer to the mammals (apes...
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  • Merzbox (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    No. Title Length 1. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Veddah" 16:53 2. "Cross Toad" 10:57 3. "Slash Embryo" 32:34...
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  • Sarath Kothalawala (category CS1 Sinhala-language sources (si))
    Bora Diya Pokuna 2015 Sakkarang Dingiri Banda 2017 Ali Kathawa Handuna veddah 2017 28 Lenin 2017 Dr. Nawariyan Doctor Roshan 2018 Kolomba Sanniya Returns...
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  • G. R. Perera (category Articles containing Sinhala-language text)
    1971 Welikathara Tarzan Kumara 1980 Karumakkarayo Siyadoris 1987 Viragaya Veddah Mudalali 1998 Gini Avi Saha Gini Keli Doorway shooting victim 1999 Padadaya...
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  • 2021 in Sri Lanka (category CS1 Sinhala-language sources (si))
    Lanka News - Newsfirst. 3 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021. "Veddah chief's wife passes away due to COVID-19". Sri Lanka News - Newsfirst. 5...
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