PRESERVING MINORITIZED VOICES IN A BORDERLESS WORLD: A DOCUMENTATION OF INDIGENOUS VEDDA ORAL TRADITIONS FOR CULTURAL HOMOGENEITY AND EQUITY
The Vedda language, spoken by Sri Lanka’s indigenous Adivasi community, is endangered due to the dominance of regional languages such as Sinhala and Tamil in relation to the Vedda community. This study aims to investigate the history of the Vedda language, as well as language contact and shift, to determine its status....