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Mundari language

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Ethnicity
  
Munda

Native speakers
  
1.6 million

Dialects
  
Bhumij language

Glottolog
  
mund1320

Spoken by
  
Munda people

Native to
  
India, Bangladesh, Nepal

ISO 639-3
  
unr – inclusive codeIndividual code:unx – "Munda" (Killi; duplicate code)

Language family
  
Austroasiatic languages, Munda languages

Mundari karam song


Mundari (Muɳɖa) is a Munda language of the Austroasiatic language family spoken by the Munda people, and is closely related to Santali and Ho. Mundari is primarily spoken by Munda tribal people in east India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. "Mundari Bani", a script to write Mundari Language was invented by Rohidas Singh Nag.

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Dialects

Toshiki Osada (2008:99), citing the Encyclopaedia Mundarica (vol. 1, p. 6), lists the following dialects of Mundari, which are spoken mostly in Jharkhand state.

  • Hasada ([hasa-daʔ]): east of the Ranchi-Chaibasa Road
  • Naguri ([naguri]): west of the Ranchi-Chaibasa Road
  • Tamaria ([tamaɽ-ia]) or Latar: Panchpargana area (Bundu, Tamar, Silli, Baranda, and Rahe)
  • Kera ([keraʔ]): ethnic Oraon who live in the Ranchi city area

    • Bhumij, listed in many sources as a separate language, may in fact be a variety of the Latar (Tamaria) dialect of Mundari. It is spoken across Jharkhand state and in Mayurbhanj district, Odisha (Anderson 2008:196). There may be around 50,000 Bhumij speakers.

    References

    Mundari language Wikipedia
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