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		Their culture and language slowly started to vanish, and today there is not an original Vedda language remaining, and there is, at the most, only a few hundred Vedda people left that have not inter-married with other races and still practice the old ways of living.
		The Vedda marriage ceremony was one of simplicity.
		Vedda women are in several ways considered the equals of man. In many cultures a person's decent is traced through the man but in the Vedda culture it is traditionally traced through the woman.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/middle_east/vedda.html (933 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Vedda
		The language of the Veddas has aroused much debate in learned circles ever since the early twentieth century when detailed records of their speech were being published in works such as the Seligmanns' Veddas (1911) and Wilhelm Geiger's Der Sprache der Vaddas (1914).
		Vedda speech is also characterised by a high degree of periphrasis where two or more words of Sinhala origin are used to construct a noun or verb.
		Vedda women are in several ways considered the equals of man. In many cultures a person's decent is traced through the man but in the Vedda culture it is traditionally traced through the woman.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vedda (381 words)

	East Coast Veddas
		From The Veddas by C.G. and Brenda Z. Seligmann (1911), pp.
		Some of the Coast Veddas whom we questioned said they had heard of, and still knew of, certain of the old Vedda waruge, and such men were generally able to mention Morane waruge while fewer also knew of Unapane waruge.
		One of the nets used by the Coast Veddas is seen drying behind the house in the background of Plate LX IX, fig.
	vedda.org /seligmann-coastal-veddas.htm (1317 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Vedda language
		The language of the Veddas has aroused much debate in learned circles ever since the early twentieth century when detailed records of their speech were being published in works such as the Seligmanns' Veddas (1911) and Wilhelm Geiger's Der Sprache der Vaddas (1914).
		Vedda speech is also characterised by a high degree of periphrasis where two or more words of Sinhala origin are used to construct a noun or verb.
		All this would suggest that the Vedda language of today approaches a sort of dialect of Sinhala though it preserves certain forms which may constitute the original speech of their ancestors.
	www.lankalibrary.com /cul/veddha/veddha_10.htm (948 words)

	Sri Lanka's coastal Vedda indigenous communities
		Most of the Veddas were herded into coastal Refugee Camps in Government controlled regions during the late 80’s and early 90’s.
		These Vedda folk populated the interior as well as the coast from Mutur to as far south as Valaichchenai.
		Coastal Veddas say they would like to return to their ancestral hamlets and traditional livelihoods, but cannot do so because they would lose benefits that are available to them in settled areas.
	vedda.org /coastal-veddas.htm (241 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Vedda language - A regional dialect of Sinhala
		In fact they were not pre-Aryan people as is evident from Tissahamy's claim that they are the descendants of Vijaya's children who fled to the forest to escape Kuveni's Kuvini's as the Veddas correctly refer to her relatives.
		The word Vedda itself has been given to them by the Sinhala people as is evident from the etymology of the word.
		Thus it is quite evident that the veddas belong to the post Vijayan period and that they use a language which has its origins in the Sinhala language.
	www.lankalibrary.com /cul/veddha/veddha_11.htm (545 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A former Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Sunil Sarath Perera in his talk on 'The Poetry of the Veddas' last Saturday at Suvisuddharama Hall, Wellawatte at a public meeting sponsored by the Colombo South Research Circle revealed that the Vedda lullaby is probably the oldest known lullaby of the world.
		Besides the Vedda lullaby there is a rich and wide variety of Vedda songs sung at various rituals and occasions.
		However the Vedda poetry is definitely an important part of the Sinhala poetical tradition, said the speaker.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/10/20/new28.html (383 words)

	Plight of the Danigala Vedda clan
		(Bibile, 17 September 2004) The chief of the ancient Danigala Vedda clan, Danigala Maha Bandaralage Randunu Wanniya, is reported to be dying of throat cancer.
		With little help from outside the beleaguered Danigala community, the ailing Vedda elder has been sent in circles from one district hospital to another, from Badulla to Ampara to Kandy and back to Badulla.
		Observers have wryly noted that the better-known Dambana Veddas, who have agitated publicly and pressed cases in court against successive governments, have lately become the favorites of politicians, government departments, and the public.
	www.vedda.org /danigala.htm (655 words)

	Detailed Review [Vedda Tribe - Overall View] - ProgressoR
		Vedda Tribe's lineup didn't undergo any changes since their debut in 1999, while their instrumental equipment was replenished with modern synthesizers and an acoustic guitar.
		I was listening to Vedda Tribe's recording 'legacy' along with a few of friends of mine, and of course, we shared our thoughts on each of the albums.
		While it's clear to me that it would be wrong to disagree with these remarks, Vedda Tribe's youthfully sincere debut is, nevertheless, a bit closer to the heart of such an adherent of originality as I. In any case, both the albums are highly recommendable.
	www.progressor.net /review/vedda_tribe_overall.html (1015 words)

	Veddhas - Virtual Library Sri Lanka
		Vedda - or "wanniya-laeto" (forest dwellers), as they call themselves - still hunt and are adept at collecting honey.
		Other vedda villages are found in the proximity of jungle areas, where they adopt agriculture and animal husbandry.
		Those Vedda who found the change to a village lifestyle insupportable, returned to the jungles bordering the national parks in Maduru Oya and near Mahiyangana.
	members.tripod.com /~hettiarachchi/veddha.html (2408 words)

	Daily Mirror Online : News
		Veddas are considering representation in the national Parliament.
		Vedda Chief Uruwarige Wanniyaleaththo has said they were interested about a community representative in the national legislature.
		The Vedda chief also said he would welcome back former Veddas resettled in the Mahaweli scheme as long as they had not brought shame to the indigenous community in Sri Lanka.
	www.dailymirror.lk /2003/03/05/News/9.html (227 words)

	The Space Review: Space tourism: managing expectations in uncertain times
		In essence, Vedda is trying to define “successful” space tourism to be something as commonplace and as mature as forms of terrestrial tourism like commercial aviation and cruise lines.
		That is an honorable goal, and Vedda is quite correct to conclude it may take decades for space travel to achieve it.
		Vedda tries to define “successful” space tourism to be something as commonplace and as mature as forms of terrestrial tourism like commercial aviation and cruise lines.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/13/1 (1652 words)

	CMIS Research - Image Analysis
		The tracking of user specified objects, using our generic tracking software Vedda, is illustrated in a fish tracking example.
		The user indicates objects that need to be tracked and the Vedda software then tracks and segments the objects automatically.
		This has wide application as it is not strongly dependent on models describing the shape or motion of the objects being tracked.
	www.cmis.csiro.au /iap/Motion/index.htm (675 words)

	Vedda Biography \| ema_06_package.xml
		The Vedda population is small, though an accurate number has yet to be recorded.
		Vedda religious beliefs, like their language, have been strongly influenced by their Tamil and Sinhalese neighbors.
		Vedda groups located near the Tamil tend toward Hinduism, while those located near the Sinhalese tend toward Buddhism.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/vedda-ema-06 (379 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features
		As customary for the Vedda, the bow and arrow were kept against the palu tree (as a matter of fact any such forest tree), while the arrow head was stuck on the ground.
		Suddenly another Vedda armed with a bow and arrow confronted him in great provocation and challenged him thus: "Don't you know to trespass into another's panguwa is wrongful act punishable with death?" He was about to shoot him with the bow and arrow when Randunna jumped forward and stopped him from doing so.
		Thereafter, this deadly yam came to be known among the veddas as the "Naga Maru Ala" the yam that killed a sister.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/06/02/artscop07.html (1263 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The public has a romanticized view of the Veddas as ancient people with an archaic life-style that is threatened by the cultural transformations of recent centuries.
		We have had a spate of articles lamenting over the fate of these indigenes of Sri Lanka who were forced to abandon their 'hunter-gatherer' mode of existence in the face of an inexorable advance in what may broadly be described as 'modernization'.
		As understood by scholars, the 'Vedda' is more than a cultural species - he (or she) represents an ancient physical type of homo sapiens with bodily features that are easily recognizable by even the non-expert.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2003/12/14/fea14.html (1263 words)

	Valli Marries Kataragama God
		Veddas believed that the spirit of a great hunter lived upon a remote mountain peak within sight of the Indian Ocean.
		So when Nambi, the chief of the Kataragama Veddas, and his wife one day discovered a baby girl in the jungle, they were overjoyed because they had been praying for a daughter, and yet nobody considered it a miracle.
		When Vedda chief Nambi woke up in the morning, he figured out that Valli had run away with the old man and was furious.
	kataragama.org /valli.htm (1493 words)

	Vedda move Sun Newspapers, Cleveland, Ohio
		Tentative plans first were announced last fall for the longtime Lakewood commercial printing company, currently at 11730 Detroit Ave., to move to a vacant parcel of land at 12000 Berea Road.
		Pending the results of an environmental assessment report, Vedda Printing planned to construct a 16,000-square-foot, $1 million building on the property.
		The proposed Vedda Printing TIF, which would divert new revenue for a period of up to 25 years to pay off the bond, also would cover public improvements.
	www.sunnews.com /news/2004/part1/0617/WVEDDA.htm (306 words)

	Data Integration Software - IBM WebSphere Information Integration (formerly Ascential Software) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Vedda will be responsible for leading the company's direct and indirect global sales organizations throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.
		Vedda was vice president of worldwide sales at Mirror-Image Internet, where he built up the company's significant worldwide sales presence.
		Vedda replaces Alan Kerr, who has been Ascential Software's vice president of worldwide sales since its inception in September 2000 and was previously vice president of worldwide sales at Informix Software.
	ibm.ascential.com /news/pr.html/view/133 (549 words)

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