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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    creoles Andaman Creole Hindi Bombay Hindi Haflong Hindi Nagamese Nefamese Vedda See also Indo-Iranian languages Nuristani languages Iranian languages...
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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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    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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    Tibetan Neo-Buddhism list Other Ayyavazhi Kalash Jainism Digambara Śvetāmbara Sarnaism Kirat Mundhum Srilankan Vedda 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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  • 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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    creoles Andaman Creole Hindi Bombay Hindi Haflong Hindi Nagamese Nefamese Vedda See also Indo-Iranian languages Nuristani languages Iranian languages...
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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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    creoles Andaman Creole Hindi Bombay Hindi Haflong Hindi Nagamese Nefamese Vedda See also Indo-Iranian languages Nuristani languages Iranian languages...
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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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    Tibetan Neo-Buddhism list Other Ayyavazhi Kalash Jainism Digambara Śvetāmbara Sarnaism Kirat Mundhum Srilankan Vedda Ravidassia Sikhism Khalsa Sects...
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    Tibetan Neo-Buddhism list Other Ayyavazhi Kalash Jainism Digambara Śvetāmbara Sarnaism Kirat Mundhum Srilankan Vedda Ravidassia Sikhism Khalsa Sects...
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    the Austroasiatic languages), Tibeto-Burman languages, Nihali, Kusunda, Vedda and Burushaski. in the Caucasus, the Kartvelian, Northeast Caucasian, Northwest...
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    communities of Sri Lanka, such as the Malays, the Burghers, the Indigenous Veddas, the Kaffirs and, the Sri Lankan Chinese, who migrated to Sri Lanka during...
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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 Hindu, Buddhist 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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