Mundari language
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"Mundari" redirects here. For other uses, see Mundari (disambiguation).
| Mundari | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | India, Bangladesh, Nepal |
| Ethnicity | Munda |
| Native speakers | 2,080,000 (1997) |
| Language family |
Austro-Asiatic
|
| Dialects |
Bhumij
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | either: unr – Mundari unx – Munda |
The Mundari language is a Munda language of the Austro-Asiatic language family spoken by the Munda people, and is closely related to Santali. Mundari is primarily spoken by Munda tribal people in east India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
[edit] Further reading
- Evans, Nicholas & Toshki Osada. 2005a. Mundari: the myth of a language without word classes. In Linguistic Typology 9.3, pp. 351–390.
- Evans, Nicholas & Toshki Osada. 2005b. Mundari and argumentation in word-class analysis. In Linguistic Typology 9.3, pp. 442–457
- Hengeveld, Kees & Jan Rijkhoff. 2005. Mundari as a flexible language. In Linguistic Typology 9.3, pp. 406–431.
- Newberry, J. (2000). North Munda dialects: Mundari, Santali, Bhumia. Victoria, B.C.: J. Newberry. ISBN 0921599684
[edit] External links
- Mundari language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- Entry for Mundari at Rosetta Project
- Mundari Bibliography at Department of Linguistics, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
- Detailed language map of eastern Nepal, see language #68 in green along eastern border
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