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An Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any member of the indigenous people who speak one of the Munda languages.
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noun
a family of languages spoken by people scattered throughout central India
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Austro-Asiatic, Austro-Asiatic language, Munda-Mon-Khmer
History
From a name in Munda, coined by philologist Max Müller to distinguish the family from Dravidian.
