Veddah
[aka Veda, Vedda, Veddha]Classification: Indo-European
·dormant
Classification: Indo-European
·dormant
Veda, Vedda, Veddha, Weda, Wedda, Weddo, Beda, Bedda |
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Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan |
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Information from: “Endangered languages of South Asia” (303-341) . van Driem, George (2007) , Brenzinger, Matthias · Mouton de Gruyter
"It is not known whether there are still any surviving speakers of the original, albeit heavily Indo-Aryanised Vedda language..." (p.305)
Sinhalese
"absorbed into modern Sinhalese society in terms of both lifestyle and language." (p. 305)
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Veddah reportedly no longer used (Breton 1997)
Shifting to Sinhala
Eastern mountains, Badulla and Polonnaruwa districts
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press