- Vedda-gala and its environs.
Ethnonyms of
Vedda include Vadda, Veddah,
Veddha and Vaddo. "Vedda" is
either a
Dravidian word that
stems from the Tamil...
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Strumigenys veddha, is one of more than 185
species in the
genus Strumigenys found in Sri Lanka. "Strumigenys
veddha - Facts". AntWeb.
Retrieved 19 January...
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found to
prove the
existence of
these humanoids, but they are
ubiquitous in
Veddha mythology and Sri
Lankan folklore. Hugh
Nevill explained that, "nittaewo"...
-
several non-fiction
books on
Veddha culture,
language and Sri
Lankan farming methods. His
unique experience living among veddhas and his
writings put him...
- as 4,800 Europeans; 17,900
Burghers and Eurasians; 8,900 Malays; 2,200
Veddhas; and 7,500 other. The
Censuses of 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 had
shown Ceylon...
- amid civilization,
could raise such
human specimens as the Bushmen, the
Veddhas of Ceylon, and some
African Tribes, to the same
intellectual level as the...
- due to the
influence of the
Jaffna kingdom to the north. The
indigenous Veddha people of the east
coast also
speak Tamil and have
become ****imilated into...
-
Veddha Chief Uruwarige Wannila Aththo,
leader of the
Indigenous people of Sri Lanka...
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Dravidian tongues, and also
among the Kols and
other people of India... The
Veddhas... come much
nearer to the
Dravidian type,
which moreover also penetrates...
-
Century CE
began to flourish. The
forests continued to be
dominated by the
Veddha po****tion
which claimed kingship ("cross-cousins") with the
Sinhala kings...
