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Munda languages

	Language in India
		For, each language, for which the population figure is given in the table below, includes also some other languages, or dialects that are not explicitly presented in the table.
		Presented below is an alphabetical abstract of languages and the mother tongues with strength of 10, 000 and above at the all India level, included under each language.
		There are a total of 114 languages and 216 mother tongues, 18 scheduled languages and 96 not specified in the schedule.
	www.languageinindia.com /nov2001/1991Languages.html (216 words)

	Munda Languages \| Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
		Munda languages, which belong to the Austroasiatic language group, are spoken by about 9 million people in northern and central India.
		Munda languages characteristically have three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), two classes (animate and inanimate) for nouns, and the use of either suffixes or auxiliaries for indicating tenses of verb forms.
		Santali is spoken over a vast region extending from the south of Bhagalpur and Monghyr in Bihar to Birbhum and west of Burdwan in West Bengal; almost the whole of Bankura; western Midnapore; the greater part of Mayurbhanj and northeast of Keonjhar in Orissa; and Seraikela, Kharsawan, Manbhum, and the Sonthal Parganas in Jharkhand.
	www.bookrags.com /research/munda-languages-ema-04 (444 words)

	Munda languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mundari and Kolh are famous languages of this group.
		The origins of the Munda languages are not firmly established; it is generally thought that the Munda languages are autochthonous languages of eastern India.
		Characteristics of the Munda languages include three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), two gender classes (animate and inanimate) for nouns, and the use of either suffixes or auxiliaries for indicating the tenses of verb forms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Munda_languages (316 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Bangla Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is the administrative language of the Indian states of Tripura and west bengal as well as one of the administrative languages of Kachar district, Assam.
		One of the main influences on Bangla was that of Sanskrit as this language was the vehicle of literature and culture for almost the whole of the subcontinent since the beginning of the Christian era.
		Language situation Bangla is the country's state language and is used extensively except in some isolated tribal habitations.
	banglapedia.search.com.bd /HT/B_0137.HTM (3361 words)

	Mundari language Definition / Mundari language Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Mundari language is a member of the Munda Munda is the largest settlement on the island of New Georgia in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands.
		Mundari is primarily spoken in east India The Republic of India is a large country in South Asia, and one of only two countries in the world with a population of over one billion.
		Mundari language is a slang of Bangla language as many words of the language are the same as Bangla language.
	www.elresearch.com /Mundari_language (252 words)

	MUNDAS - Online Information article about MUNDAS
		Kherwari is the principal Munda language, and quite 88% of all the speakers of Munda tongues belong to it.
		By race the Mundas are Dravidians, and their language was likewise long considered as a member of the Dravidian family.
		Then follow the MOn-Khmer languages of Farther India, the dialects spoken by the aboriginal inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula, the Nancowry of the Ni.cobars, and, finally, the numerous dialects of Austronesia, viz.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MOS_NAN/MUNDAS.html (1883 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Vietnamese Language Profile
		Vietnamese is one of approximately 150 languages belonging to the Austro Asiatic family of languages.
		Vietnamese is a tone language; that is, the meaning of words and sentences is affected by the pitch with which they are spoken.
		Newspapers aided in the unification of the North and South Vietnamese culture and the standardization of the language.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /profiles/profv01.htm (1067 words)

	Khasi Language Guides, Tutorials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is related to the Mon-Khmer group of languages, and unrelated to the Mundari branch of the Austroasiatic family, which is widespread in East-Central India ( Jharkhand state).
		The language is also spoken by a number of people in the hill districts of Assam bordering with Meghalaya and by a sizable population of people living in Bangladesh close to the border of India.
		Khasi language Khasi is an Austroasiatic language spoken in the four districts of Meghalaya state in India, namely East Khasi Hills district, West Khasi Hills district, Jaintia Hills district and Ri Bhoi district.
	www.masterliness.com /a/Khasi.htm (322 words)

	Cobol Language in TutorGig Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Language shift is the process whereby an entire speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language.
		Sociolinguistics differs from sociology of language in that the focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of the society on the language, while the latter s focus is on the language s effect on the society..
		Chané language is an extinct language of Argentina.
	www.tutorgig.com /es/Cobol+Language (801 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Bangla Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Bangla Language next to Assamese, Bangla (Bangla) is the easternmost of the languages belonging to the Indo-European language family.
		It is the administrative language of the Indian states of Tripura and west bengal as well as one of the administrative languages of Kachar district, Assam.
		Chaste language continued to be used in contemporary newspapers, works of documentation and in statements by the government and on matters of serious import.
	banglapedia.org /HT/B_0137.HTM (3218 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:muw
		Related to Ho and Santali, but a separate language.
		Literacy rate in first language: 10% to 30%.
		Literacy rate in second language: 50% to 75%.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=muw (107 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Tribal Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The alphabets of the Chakma language are similar to the alphabets of Thailand's Ksmer, Annam Laos, Cambodia, Syam and South Burma.
		Garo language the Garo language is, undoubtedly, an unwritten language, albeit an ancient Aryan language.
		Currently, the Khasia language of the Cherapunji region is being written in the Roman script at the initiative of the Christian missionaries of the Indian State of Meghalaya where it is the medium of instruction up to the high school level.
	www.banglapedia.org /HT/T_0222.HTM (3333 words)

	Siraiki language - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Siraiki is an old language spoken in central Pakistan.
		It is supposed that it is an Indo-Aryan language, although this is disputed.
		Now it is being said that its origin is in Austro-Asiatic group of languages, and its base is in proto-Mundari language which is spoken in east India.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Saraiki (94 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Mundari one of the most backward tribe of the country facing extinction as the tribesmen are gradually migrating to India.
		The Mundaries are fond of earth worms, snails and rats' meat but they do not take these hunted by other tribes.
		According to many scholars Mundari language is a slang of Bangla language as many words of the language are the same as Bangla language.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2003/12/30/entertainment.htm (973 words)

	Indian Languages - Dictionaries - Grammar Books
		Essays on the Languages Literature and Religion of Nepal and Tibet, Hodgson, B.H., 280pp.
		Vocabulary of the Dialects Spoken in the - Nicobar and Andaman Isle, Roepstorff, A., 114pp., hc.
		Of the Afghan Grammar of the Pukhto - Pushto or Language, Ravert, H.G., 256PP.
	www.travel-net.com /~educa/z24indc.htm (1313 words)

	GyanBooks.com - Book Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mundari English Dictionary is a by product of the master researchers and scintillating scholarship of Sarat Chandra Roy, whose anthropological work on the Mundas of Chotanagpur and Santal Parganas remains unsurpassed even till today.
		The dialects of the Mundari family of speech, to which Santa, Birhar and other tongues belong, are, besides Chotanagpur, also spoken in the Santal Parganas which adjoin some of the Bengal districts.
		It is on account of this geographical spread over of the Mundari family of speech that a large number of words from Bengali, Hindi and Sanskrit have crept into the fabric of the Mundari language.
	www.gyanbooks.com /details.asp?id=543 (205 words)

	GyanBooks.com - Book Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The present study highlighted that Mundari is chiefly spoken in the southern and western part of the Ranchi and in northern Singhbhoom district.
		Mundari, Santhali and He are the chief among the surviving Kholarian dialects.
		In fact, the terms Mundra and Mundari are used by foreigners only, in order to designate Kholarians and their language.
	www.gyanbooks.com /details.asp?id=535 (80 words)

	:: Gurtong Peace Project - South Sudanese Communities ::
		The Mundari are ago-pastoralist and the economy is centred on subsistence agriculture and herding of livestock.
		Generosity is highly respected among the Mundari and there are sanctions that are applicable to the mean, greedy, and parsimonious who may figure in satirical songs; be teased or spurned in the girls’ courting-huts.
		The Mundari culture is oral transmitted orally in songs, many of which are satirical for correcting misdemeanour in society, dance, poems and other body expressions that reflect good, generosity, and other core values of the Mundari.
	www.gurtong.org /resourcecenter/people/profile_tribe.asp?TribeID=128 (857 words)

	MEMORANDUM
		That, for want of a new script of their own language what saddest this vast population had to undergo hardly be expressed in so many words.
		That would have served them much in time and energy on their education but both of them are inconsistent with the particular Mundari language and they had to be relegated to the background.
		That, a book “Nel Jon Lagit OL” is already published in Santali language of Mundari group to invite constructive criticism from the public as well as from the experts and for the kind perusal of the Committee.
	www.allindiaaseca.org /kherwal-jarpa-memo.html (744 words)

	MUNDARI language
		See what people groups speak this language from the Joshua Project.
		See also the alphabetical language list and full country list.
		Another reference on countries, languages and people groups is Peoplegroups.org.
	globalrecordings.net /language/679 (133 words)

	Language and Scripts
		Some languages are, or have historically been, written in more than one script.
		For less common languages it is often difficult to determine the precise list of characters used to write them.
		The "Notes" field lists some countries in which the language is used, especially for lesser-known languages, but is not intended to be exhaustive.
	www.unicode.org /onlinedat/languages-scripts.html (268 words)

	languages,profession, dress and ornaments of bihar-webindia
		Magahi is the language of the country of Magadha, the districts of Patna, Nalanda and Gaya.
		Of the Munda languages, Kberwari is the most important, it includes Ho or tribal language of Hos, Mundari, the language of the Mundas in the north and Singhbhum and Bhumij or the language of the Bhumij tribe.
		Dravidian languages which are akin to Tamil and Telugu of south India are spoken by the aboriginal tribes in the same area.
	www.webindia123.com /bihar/people/language.htm (559 words)

	sciforums.com - aryan invasion - fact or fiction?
		Along with the difference of language there is a difference of skin color from north to south of India, with the southerners being darker in skin color (though northerners are hardly light in color by Western standards, with the exception of some people of the far northwest).
		It is now known that Dravidian languages, with their agglutinative patterns, share common traits and are of the same broad linguistic group as such Asian and East European languages as Finnish, Hungarian, old Bulgarian, Turkish, Mongolian and Japanese, the Finno-Ugric and Ural-Altaic branches of languages.
		Moreover, there cannot be a Dravidian invasion changing the language but not the population of India just like the Aryan invasion, as the idea is far-fetched to happen once but to happen twice in a row in the same region and by the same route is ridiculous.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=8984 (11002 words)

	Siraiki language - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Siraiki is a language spoken in central Pakistan.
		It is supposed that it is an Indo-Aryan language.
		There are several common words in Mundari and other Munda languages.
	www.free-definition.com /Siraiki-Language.html (83 words)

	mundari
		Some scholars divide the languages into two subfamilies: the North Munda (spoken in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Bihar, Bengal, and Orissa) including Korku, Santhali, Mundari, Bhumij, and Ho; and the South Munda (spoken in central Orissa and along the border between Andhra Pradesh and Orissa).
		North Munda (of which Santhali is the chief language) is the more important of the two groups; its languages are spoken by about nine-tenths of Munda speakers.
		Characteristics of the Munda languages include three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), two gender classes (animate and inanimate) for nouns, and the use of either suffixes or auxiliaries for indicating the tenses of verb forms.
	www.tribalzone.net /language/mundari.htm (328 words)

	AID- Jharkhand (Giridih) - Devlopment Alert of Ranchi Distridt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The lines composed in Mundari language by the community in Ranchi district summarises the pathetic status of education in the region.
		Only now is the Mundari community slowly catching on to the importance of education for their children.
		The Mundari community norms have a weekly meeting with all the members of the community in which all matters related to the village are discussed.
	www.aidjharkhand.org /ranchi.html (390 words)

	Languages : Austroasiatic Family
		The Austro-Asiatic Family are a scattered group of languages in Asia.
		The family once covered a larger area until Tai language speakers migrated south from southern China.
		These languages are not tonal apart from Vietnamese where tones developed recently under Chinese influence.
	www.krysstal.com /langfams_austroasia.html (198 words)

	Language
		Besides English, Assamese was accorded the status of the official language of the Brahmaputra Valley by the Official Language Act of 1960.
		However, Bengali and English were also simultaneously accorded the status of official language for the Barak Valley and the two Hill Districts by the same Act.The earliest specimen of the Assamese script is to be found in copper plates and inscriptions discovered in different parts of the region.
		By all standards it is a composite language into which words of Indo-Aryan and Indo-Chinese origins have made their way.
	www.assam.gov.in /language.asp (235 words)

	Munda Bibliography
		Mundari hymns and bhajans (MuNDari dharam durang oRo' bhajan).
		A primer of the Asur dukma^, a dialect of the Kolarian language.
		Nottrott, A. Grammatik der Kolh-Sprache [ =Grammar of the Kolh language].
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /faculty/stampe/AA/Munda/BIBLIO/biblio.authors (11335 words)

	Mayan language in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		, is part of the Mayan language family, although it is distant both linguistically and geographically from the rest of the language family.
		The Chorti language Chorti is a langauge of the Maya language Mayan language family.
		The Quiché language is a part of the Maya language family.
	www.tutorgig.com /es/Mayan+language (962 words)

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