Talk:Vedda

message: I deleted the picture becaue it was NOT a picture of veddahs. it was a picture of a local viggale (see the picture itself calls itself a 'native village' and great majority of the natives were not veddahs.) it is a picture of a traditional (most probably agricultural) village. You can see, guys clad in full white loose robes couldn't have been practical hunter-gatherers. He looks very much like a villege leader, a local doctor or a school teacher at that time. Compare this with real vedda pictures in  at the time of that picture. Greenleaf 03:07, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  picture 

message: Please just stop this silly edit war. --Pjacobi 07:28, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sinhala / Sinhalese 

message: The DNA studies bit is not backed by references. I have retained this but there seems to be some dispute over whether ancient and early historical Veddas are related to modern-day Sinhalese. There are Tamil-centric web pages that cite sources claiming Veddas are related to Tamils. It is a somewhat politically charged question given the current situation in the country. Perhaps this section should be omitted unless it can be backed up with references. --JDart 10 June 2006
:If such a thing exists I think it would be very interesting to include, because judging from the pictures the Veddas do not resemble the Negritos of Southeast Asia or Andamanese, who are generally held to be the Neolithic inhabitants of Asia.  They look much more like Austronesian peoples.  It would not be surprising if the latter arrived in Sri Lanka much later than 18,000 years ago but before the Sinhala/Tamil people, since Austronesians did make it throughout Indonesia and to Madagascar.  KarlM 21:42, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Excuse me, can You point me to some sources that say that "it is generally held that only the Negritos and the Andamanese were the Neolithic inhabitants of Asia"? YOMAL SIDOROFF-BIARMSKII (talk) 13:55, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Upon what evidence do we group Veddas under Australoid? Kortoso (talk) 17:26, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  DNA studies 

message: Current name of the article seems problematic. Wanniyala-Aetto is the name of the current leader of Veddas. So my idea is this article should be change as, Veddas or Veddahs  --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ walkie-talkie 14:46, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Far more logical. So how do we change it? Matt Oid 13:53, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The name of the article should be the, "Vedda people".----DarkTea© 03:27, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree that Vedda people is a better title, but I think your reasoning is wrong. As far as I am aware, Wanniyala-Aetto means something like "forest people" in Sinhalese and is a name used by the Veddas for themselves. The name of the current leader is not Wanniyala-Aetto according to the article, but either Uru Warige Wanniya or Uruwarige Wannila Aththo – which moreover need not even be a name at all, but could as well be a title. (My Sinhalese is unfortunately non-existent, so I find it hard to be sure if the name has a transparent meaning.) --Florian Blaschke (talk) 21:42, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of the article 

message: Do they have autonomy or reservation?--Kaiyr (talk) 08:57, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  autonomy or reservation 

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