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    Indigenous Sri Lankans were originally comprised of Naga people who, according to folklore, ruled parts of what is now Sri Lanka and worshipped snakes. The Naga were likely a Dravidian race and referred to themselves as Naga or Naya in early inscriptions from 150 BC. While distinct in early Sri Lankan chronicles and Tamil works through the 3rd century BC, the Naga began assimilating Tamil language and culture around that time and lost their separate identity.

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    Indigenous Sri Lankans were originally comprised of Naga people who, according to folklore, ruled parts of what is now Sri Lanka and worshipped snakes. The Naga were likely a Dravidian race and referred to themselves as Naga or Naya in early inscriptions from 150 BC. While distinct in early Sri Lankan chronicles and Tamil works through the 3rd century BC, the Naga began assimilating Tamil language and culture around that time and lost their separate identity.

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    Indigenous Sri Lankans were originally comprised of Naga people who, according to folklore, ruled parts of what is now Sri Lanka and worshipped snakes. The Naga were likely a Dravidian race and referred to themselves as Naga or Naya in early inscriptions from 150 BC. While distinct in early Sri Lankan chronicles and Tamil works through the 3rd century BC, the Naga began assimilating Tamil language and culture around that time and lost their separate identity.

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    Indigenous Sri Lankans

    According to folklore, the Naga people were one of the groups of original inhabitants
    of Lanka. They were said to have ruled Nagadeepa, or Jaffna Peninsula and Kelaniya.
    Naga people were snake-worshipers, and may have been a race of the Dravidians. [1]
    The word Naga was sometimes written in early inscriptions as Nya, as in
    Nganika this occurs in the Nanaghat inscription of 150 BC. Until the third century
    BC they appear as a distinct group in the early Sri Lankan chronices as well as the
    early Tamil literary works.[2] In the third century BC they started to assimilate to
    Tamil language and culture, and lost their separate identity. [3]

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