Bhumij language

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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

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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