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- Vedda_language abstract "Vedda/væđđā/ is the language of the indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka. But communities, such as Coast Veddas and Anuradhapura Veddas, that do not strictly identify themselves as Veddas also use the Vedda language in part for communication during hunting and or for religious chants, throughout the island.When a systematic field study was conducted in 1959, the language was confined to the older generation of Veddas from Dambana. In 1990s self-identifying Veddas knew few words and phrases in Vedda, but there were individuals who knew the language comprehensively. Initially there was considerable debate amongst linguists as to whether Vedda is a dialect of Sinhalese or an independent language. Later studies indicate that Vedda language is a creole which evolved from ancient times, when the Veddas came in contact with the early Sinhalese, from whom they increasingly borrowed words and synthetic features, yielding the cumulative effect that Vedda looked like Sinhalese in many particulars, but its grammatical core was still intact.The parent Vedda language(s) is of unknown genetic origins, while Sinhalese is of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European languages. Phonologically it is distinguished from Sinhalese by the higher frequency of palatal sounds C and J. The effect is also heightened by the addition of inanimate suffixes. Morphologically, the Vedda word classes are nouns, verbs and invariables, with unique gender distinctions in animate nouns. It has reduced and simplified many forms of Sinhalese such as second person pronouns and denotations of negative meanings. Instead borrowing new words from Sinhalese or other languages Vedda creates combinations of words from a limited lexical stock. Vedda also maintains many archaic Sinhalese terms from the 10th to 12th centuries, as a relict of its close contact with Sinhalese. Vedda also retains a number of unique words that cannot be derived from Sinhalese. Vedda has exerted a substratum influence in the formation of Sinhalese. This is evident by the presence of both lexical and structural elements in Sinhalese which cannot be traced to either Indo-Aryan or neighboring Dravidian languages.".
- Vedda_language iso6393Code "ved".
- Vedda_language languageFamily Sinhalese_language.
- Vedda_language spokenIn Sri_Lanka.
- Vedda_language spokenIn Uva_Province.
- Vedda_language wikiPageExternalLink watch?v=dKhZmRQyxs0&NR=1.
- Vedda_language wikiPageID "19943831".
- Vedda_language wikiPageLength "23839".
- Vedda_language wikiPageOutDegree "87".
- Vedda_language wikiPageRevisionID "678400662".
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Adjective.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Animacy.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Anuradhapura.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Anuradhapura_Veddas.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Archaism.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Australian_National_University.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Balangoda_Man.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink British_Ceylon.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Sri_Lanka.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mixed_languages.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pidgins_and_creoles.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sinhala_language.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Vedda.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Coast_Veddas.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Colombo.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Creole_language.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Dambana.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Dialect.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Dutch_East_India_Company.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink English_language.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Etymology.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Fa_Hien_Cave.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Fernão_de_Queiroz.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Genetic_relationship_(linguistics).
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_gender.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_number.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Parker_(author).
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Hunter-gatherer.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Indiana_University.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Indigenous_peoples.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Indo-Aryan_languages.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Indo-European_languages.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Jamaican_Patois.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Kingdom_of_Kandy.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Kinnaraya.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Language_shift.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Linguistics.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Loincloth.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Mahiyangana.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Malaya_Rata.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Manniku_W._Sugathapala_De_Silva.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Melanesian_Pidgin.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Natural_language.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink New_York.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Noun.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Palate.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Part_of_speech.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Phonology.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Pidgin.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Plural.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Prakrit.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Principality_of_Ruhuna.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Pronoun.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Rajarata.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Relexification.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Relict.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Knox_(sailor).
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Percival.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Rodiya.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Sinhalese_language.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink South_India.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Spirit_possession.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Sri_Lanka.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Sri_Lankan_Tamil_dialects.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Stratum_(linguistics).
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Suffix.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Tamil_language.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Toponymy.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Trance.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Turkish_language.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Uva_Province.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Vedda_people.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Verb.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink Wilhelm_Geiger.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink YouTube.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLink File:Important_locations_of_Anuradhapura_Kingdom.png.
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Vedda language".
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Vedda".
- Vedda_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "indigenous source".
- Vedda_language ethnicity "2500".
- Vedda_language extinct "by 1997".
- Vedda_language fam "Sinhala-based creole".
- Vedda_language familycolor "Creole".
- Vedda_language glotto "vedd1240".
- Vedda_language glottorefname "Veddah".
- Vedda_language iso "ved".
- Vedda_language name "Vedda".
- Vedda_language ref "e18".
- Vedda_language region Uva_Province.
- Vedda_language states Sri_Lanka.