| 11. | Vedda still inhabit Kataragama region and there are temples dedicated to the mountain god Murugan in this region of Sri Lanka.
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| 12. | "' Vedda "'/ v? / was the language of the indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka.
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| 13. | "' Vedda "'/ v? / was the language of the indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka.
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| 14. | In the reign of King Rajasinghe II ( 17th century ) in his battle with the Dutch he had a Vedda regiment.
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| 15. | Land acquisition for mass irrigation projects, government forest reserve restrictions and the civil war have disrupted traditional Vedda ways of life.
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| 16. | Thus, over time, it is possible for non-Vedda groups to become Veddas, in this broad cultural sense.
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| 17. | The first systematic attempt at studying the Vedda language was undertaken by Hugh Neville, an English civil servant in British Ceylon.
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| 18. | During religious festivals, people who enter a trance or spirit possession sometimes use a mixed language that contains words from Vedda.
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| 19. | Moreover, there is a small population of Vedda people who are believed to be the original indigenous group to inhabit the island.
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| 20. | Veddas consider the Vedda language to be distinct from Sinhalese and use it as an ethnic marker to differentiate them from Sinhalese people.
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