Mundari language
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Mundari language
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.
References
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 0-921599-68-4
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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