Mundari

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Mundari is an Austroasiatic Munda language of eastern India, spoken primarily by the Munda people in states such as Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Mundari canonical 7
Mundari language 6
Mundari Bani 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language
Munda language
language
closelyRelatedTo Ho language
Korku language
Santali
linked to: Santhali
ethnicGroup Munda people
linked to: Munda peoples
family Munda
hasAlternativeName Munda
Mundari Bani
linked to: Mundari
hasDialect Bhumij
Hasada
Kera
Naguri
hasGlottocode mund1320
hasISO6393Code unr
hasLinguisticResearchBy John Brough
P. O. Bodding
R. C. Prasad
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasWritingSystem Bengali script
Devanagari script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Ol Chiki script
Oriya script
linked to: Odia script
isPartOf South Asian linguistic area
isTaughtIn some regional schools in Jharkhand
languageFamily Austroasiatic
morphologicalType agglutinative language
primaryRegion Chota Nagpur Plateau
region eastern India
spokenBy Munda people
linked to: Munda peoples
spokenIn Assam
Bangladesh
Chhattisgarh
India
Jharkhand
Odisha
linked to: Orissa

West Bengal
status minority language in India
subfamily North Munda
usedFor daily communication among Munda people
usedIn folk songs
oral tradition
storytelling
wordOrder SOV

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Santhali closelyRelatedTo Mundari
Austroasiatic hasLanguage Mundari language
linked to: Mundari
Jharkhand regionalLanguage Mundari
Unicode 15.0 addsScript Nag Mundari
linked to: Mundari
Munda language Mundari language
linked to: Mundari
North Munda languages includesLanguage Mundari language
linked to: Mundari
Ho language closelyRelatedTo Mundari language
linked to: Mundari
Santalī closelyRelatedTo Mundari
Mundari hasAlternativeName Mundari Bani
linked to: Mundari
Juang language relatedTo Mundari language
linked to: Mundari
Kharia language closelyRelatedTo Mundari language
linked to: Mundari
Kharia closelyRelatedTo Mundari
Khortha hasInfluenceFrom Mundari
Chaibasa regionalLanguage Mundari