 | George van Driem - Austronesian languages - 2001 - 496 pages
...Ceylon reported that the Vedda language ...is to a great extent the colloquial Sinhalese tongue, but it is slightly changed in form and accent. Yet closely...usually a form of Sinhalese, or admit of Sinhalese and Tamil derivations; but a very few may possibly belong to, or be a modification of words in, their... | |
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