Mundari language (Kherwari)
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Name (Hebrew)
שפת מונדרי (חרווארי)
Name (Latin)
Mundari language (Kherwari)
Other forms of name
Colh language
Horo language
Kohl language
Kol language
Mandari language
Mondari language
Munari language
Munda language
nne Mundari language
See Also From tracing topical name
Kherwari languages
Asuri language
Bhumij language
See Also From tracing place name
Bangladesh
India
Nepal
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q3327828
Library of congress:
sh 85088416
Sources of Information
- Ethnologue:p. 478 (Mundari (Mandari, Munari, Munda, Horo, Mondari, Colh). India, also Nepal and Bangladesh. Austro-Asiatic, Munda, North, Kherwari, Mundari. Dialects: Hasada, Latar, Naguri, Kera. Closely related to Ho and Santali, but a separate langauge.); p. 433; p. 567 also.
- Voegelin:p. 240-241 (It seems likly but not certain that Mundari is no more than one language. ...; Mundari=Mundari-Ho. Lists Ho=Lankakol as a dialect.)
- Zograph. Langs. South Asia, 1982:p. 171 (Mundari ... lists Ho as a Kherwari dialect, and Mundari as a Kherwari language ...)
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Wikipedia description:
Mundari (Munɖari) is a Munda language of the Austroasiatic language family spoken by the Munda tribes in eastern Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal and northern Rangpur Division of Bangladesh. It is closely related to Santali and Bhumij. Mundari Bani, a script specifically to write Mundari, was invented by Rohidas Singh Nag. It has also been written in the Devanagari, Odia, Bengali, and Latin writing systems.
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