Veddoid
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]Veddoid (plural Veddoids)
- (anthropology, historical) A subtype of the Australoid race which includes the Vedda people of South India and others.
- 1981, D. G. E. Hall, History of South East Asia, page 6:
- Anthropologists have classified these people as Veddoid after the Vedda tribes of Ceylon, and assign to this group the Senoi and Sakai hill-tribes of Malaya, and other backward peoples of south Celebes and on the Engano and Mentawei Islands off the west coast of Sumatra.