Munda
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Munda is a group of languages that belong to the Austroasiatic language family, one of the major language families found in Asia. These languages are significant for understanding the linguistic diversity and historical development of the Austroasiatic peoples.
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Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Indian subcontinent
- Ethnicity
- Munda peoples
- Native speakers
- 9–11 million (2010s estimation</span>"}]]}'>est. )
- Linguistic classification
- Austroasiatic Munda
- Proto language
- Proto-Munda
- Subdivisions
- North Munda Sora – Gorum Juang Kharia Gutob – Remo Gtaʼ
- Iso 639 2 5
- mun
- Glottolog
- mund1335
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The Munda languages are a group of closely-related languages spoken by about eleven million people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Historically, they have been called the Kolarian languages. They constitute a branch of the Austroasiatic language family, which means they are distantly related to languages such as the Mon and Khmer languages, to Vietnamese, as well as to minority languages in Thailand and Laos and the minority Mangic languages of South China. Bhumij, Ho, Mundari, and Santali are notable Munda languages.
Grierson's Linguistic Map of India, 1906 The family is generally divided into two branches: North Munda, spoken in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal, as well as in parts of Bangladesh and Nepal, and South Munda, spoken in central Odisha and along the border between Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.