Bhumij language

E734616

Bhumij language is an Austroasiatic language of the Munda family spoken primarily by the Bhumij people in eastern India.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bhumij language canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language ⓘ
Munda language ⓘ
language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Ho language ⓘ
Mundari language ⓘ
linked to: Mundari

Santali language ⓘ
linked to: Santhali
country India ⓘ
endangeredStatusReason pressure from dominant regional languages ⓘ
ethnicGroup Bhumij ⓘ
family Munda ⓘ
glottologCode bhum1247 ⓘ
glottologName Bhumij ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Bhumij ⓘ
Bhumij Munda ⓘ
hasAncestor Proto-Munda language ⓘ
linked to: Munda languages
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ
iso639-3Code bhu ⓘ
languageBranch Kherwarian ⓘ
languageFamily Austroasiatic ⓘ
minorityLanguageIn India ⓘ
morphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
primaryWordOrder SOV ⓘ
region eastern India ⓘ
scriptDevelopedFor Bhumij script ⓘ
spokenBy Bhumij people ⓘ
spokenIn Assam ⓘ
Bihar ⓘ
Jharkhand ⓘ
Odisha ⓘ
linked to: Orissa

Tripura ⓘ
West Bengal ⓘ
status vulnerable ⓘ
subfamily North Munda ⓘ
subjectTo language shift to regional Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
usedFor folk songs ⓘ
rituals ⓘ
storytelling ⓘ
usedIn oral tradition of Bhumij people ⓘ
writingSystem Bengali script ⓘ
Bhumij script ⓘ
Devanagari ⓘ
linked to: Devanagari script

Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

Odia script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

North Munda languages → includesLanguage → Bhumij language ⓘ
Bhumij → language → Bhumij language ⓘ
Munda languages → majorLanguage → Bhumij language ⓘ
Bhumij people → language → Bhumij language ⓘ