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- Coast_Veddas abstract "The Coast Veddas or Vedar, by self-designation, form a social group within the minority Sri Lankan Tamil ethnic group of the Eastern province of Sri Lanka. They are primarily found in small coastal villages from the eastern township of Trincomalee to Batticalao. Nevertheless they also inhabit a few villages south of Batticalao as well. They make a living by fishing, slash and burn agriculture, paddy cultivation of rice, basket weaving for market and occasional wage labor. Anthropologists consider them to be partly descended from the indigenous Vedda people, as well as local Tamils. Residents of the Eastern province consider their Vedar (Tamil for \"hunter\") neighbors to have been part of the local social structure from earliest times, whereas some Vedar elders believe that their ancestors may have migrated from the interior at some time in the past.They speak a dialect of Sri Lankan Tamil that is used in the region. During religious festivals, people who enter a 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 of folk deities, as well as the main Hindu deities such as Murugan, Pillaiyar and Amman. They also maintain the ancestor worship tradition of the interior Veddas. Clan divisions, if they still exist, do not play an important role in choosing of marriage partners or place of domicile. Most identify themselves as a caste among the Tamils as opposed to a separate ethnic group. Their economic conditions have been impacted by the Sri Lankan civil war.".
- Coast_Veddas language Sri_Lankan_Tamil_dialects.
- Coast_Veddas populationPlace Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka.
- Coast_Veddas populationPlace Sri_Lanka.
- Coast_Veddas related Sri_Lankan_Tamils.
- Coast_Veddas related Vedda_people.
- Coast_Veddas thumbnail Coast_Veddas_of_Vakarai.jpeg?width=300.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageExternalLink seligmann-coastal-veddas.htm.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageExternalLink 20.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageExternalLink wedding.htm.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageExternalLink east-coast-veddas.htm.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageExternalLink nation.htm.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageExternalLink Vedda.html.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageExternalLink 13923262.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageID "25931839".
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageLength "20705".
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageOutDegree "107".
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageRevisionID "705456747".
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Akkaraipattu.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Ampara_District.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Anuradhapura_Veddas.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Balangoda_Man.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Barter.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Basket_weaving.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Batticaloa.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Batticaloa_District.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Bhairava.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink British_Ceylon.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Caste.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sri_Lankan_Tamil_castes.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sri_Lankan_Tamil_society.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Category:Vedda.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Gabriel_Seligman.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Clan.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Dances_of_Sri_Lanka.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Dialect.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Endogamy.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink English_Wesleyan_Mission.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Eravur.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Fishing.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Folk_religion.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Ganesha.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Gonagolla.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Hambantota_District.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Hindu.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Hinduism.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink History_of_Eastern_Tamils.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Hunter-gatherer.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Indigenous_peoples.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink James_Emerson_Tennent.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Kali.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Kalkudah.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Karaiyar.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Kartikeya.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Kataragama.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Kathiraveli.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Kingdom_of_Kandy.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Kirikoroha.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Kokkadichcholai.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Kuti_system.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Mahabharata.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Mandur_(Sri_Lanka).
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Mankerni.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Mariamman.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Matrilineality.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Megalith.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Mesolithic.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Multilingualism.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Muttur_(Sri_Lanka).
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Narasimha.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Paddy_field.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Pallar.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Parallel_and_cross_cousins.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Periyasami_cult.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Ramayana.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Shaivism.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Shiva.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Slash-and-burn.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Southern_Province,_Sri_Lanka.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Spirit_possession.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Sri_Lanka.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Sri_Lankan_Civil_War.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Sri_Lankan_Moors.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Sri_Lankan_Tamil_dialects.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Sri_Lankan_Tamils.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Tamil_language.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Terukkuttu.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Thirukkovil.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Trance.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Trincomalee.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Trincomalee_District.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Vaharai_bombing.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Vakarai_(Sri_Lanka).
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Vanniar_(Chieftain).
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Vannimai.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Vedda_language.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Vedda_people.
- Coast_Veddas wikiPageWikiLink Vellalar_of_Sri_Lanka.