Category: I.L.O.
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Index of Articles
Index of articles about the Wanniyal-aetto and other indigenous peoples of Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka’s Indigenous Wanniya-laeto
Sri Lanka’s indigenous inhabitants, the Veddas or Wanniya-laeto (‘forest-dwellers’) as they call themselves, preserve a direct line of descent from the island’s original Neolithic community dating from at least 14,000 BC and probably far earlier according to current scientific opinion.