North Munda

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North Munda is a primary branch of the Munda subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family, comprising several related indigenous languages spoken mainly in eastern and central India.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
North Munda canonical 6
Munda branch 1
North Munda subgroup 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language branch
subgroup of languages
classificationStatus well-established branch of Munda
contactWith Dravidian languages
Indo-Aryan languages
geographicDistributionComparedTo more northerly than South Munda
hasAlternativeName North Munda branch
North Munda subgroup
linked to: North Munda
hasMemberLanguage Asuri
Bhumij
Birhor
Ho
Kera
Koda
Koda (Kora)
Koraku
Korku
Mahali
Mundari
Santali
linked to: Santhali

Sora Koda
Turi
hasNotableLanguage Santali
linked to: Santhali
hasSubgroup Kherwarian languages
Korku language
hasWritingSystem uses multiple scripts via major regional languages
linguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
predominantly SOV word order
rich verbal morphology
use of suffixes for grammatical relations
partOf Austroasiatic language family
linked to: Austroasiatic

Munda languages
region Indian subcontinent
linked to: South Asia

South Asia
relatedTo South Munda
spokenBy Munda ethnic groups
indigenous peoples of eastern India
spokenIn Bihar
Chhattisgarh
India
Jharkhand
Madhya Pradesh
Odisha
linked to: Orissa

West Bengal
central India
eastern India
typologicalGroup Austroasiatic languages of South Asia

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ho language languageBranch North Munda
Mundari subfamily North Munda
Juang language languageGroup North Munda
Munda–Nicobarese branch relatedTo Munda branch
linked to: North Munda
Korku language belongsToBranch North Munda
Bhumij language subfamily North Munda
Asuri language languageBranch North Munda
North Munda hasAlternativeName North Munda subgroup
linked to: North Munda