Mundari language

"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 Munda North Munda Kherwari Mundari languages Mundari
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.

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

External links

• Mundari language at Ethnologue
• 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