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  2. Austroasiatic languages - Wikipedia

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    Linguists traditionally recognize two primary divisions of Austroasiatic: the Mon–Khmer languages of Southeast Asia, Northeast India and the Nicobar Islands, and the Munda languages of East and Central India and parts of Bangladesh and Nepal. However, no evidence for this classification has ever been published.

  3. Languages of India - Wikipedia

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    The Austroasiatic language family (austro meaning South) is the autochthonous language in Southeast Asia, arrived by migration. Austroasiatic languages of mainland India are the Khasi and Munda languages, including Bhumij and Santali. The languages of the Nicobar islands also form part of this language family. With the exceptions of Khasi and ...

  4. Linguistic history of India - Wikipedia

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    The Austroasiatic family spoken in East and North-east India. Austroasiatic languages include the Santal and Munda languages of eastern India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, and the Mon–Khmer languages spoken by the Khasi and Nicobarese in India and in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and southern China. The Austroasiatic languages arrived ...

  5. Munda peoples - Wikipedia

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    The authors concluded that there was a mostly male-dominated migration into India from Southeast Asia. Modern people in Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia were found to represent the ancestral group, which migrated into India, and spread the Austroasiatic languages. [12] Munda peoples are genetically closely related to Mah Meri and Temuan people of ...

  6. List of languages by number of native speakers in India

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    States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...

  7. Munda languages - Wikipedia

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    The Munda languages share some unified characteristics that make them considerably standout from the rest of the Austroasiatic languages: Munda word order is SOV or APV, though SVO is numerous in Sora, an archaic Munda language; morphologically, the Munda languages are highly synthetic and agglutinating, while the non-Munda Austroasiatic are ...

  8. Mundari language - Wikipedia

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    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. [3] It is closely related to Santali and Bhumij. [4] Mundari Bani, a script specifically to write Mundari, was invented by Rohidas Singh ...

  9. Ho language - Wikipedia

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    Ho (IPA: [hoː d͡ʑagar], Warang Citi: 𑢹𑣉𑣉 𑣎𑣋𑣜) is a Munda language of the Austroasiatic language family spoken primarily in India by about 2.2 million people (0.202% of India's population) per the 2001 census.