Kolarian
Kolarian is a word first used by George Campbell for Munda languages.[1] He described it as one of the three non-Aryan language families of India, which he made up, along with the Tibeto-Burman and the Dravidian. It is a branch of Austro-asiatic languages spoken in the eastern regions of the subcontinent, and is also known as Munda languages.[2] Its not a single tribal language but a group of tribal family languages. The speakers are called Kolarian tribes.
The following languages belong to the group:
- Asur language (Asuri language)
- Bhumij language
- Birhor language
- Bonda language
- Gutob language (Gadaba language)
- Ho language
- Juang language
- Kharia language
- Koda language (Kora language)
- Kol language (Bangladesh)
- Korku language
- Korwa language
- Mundari language
- Santali language
- Sora language (Savara language)
References[edit]
- ^ Campbell, G. (1869). "On the Races of India as Traced in Existing Tribes and Castes". The Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1869-1870). 1 (2): 128–140. doi:10.2307/3014445. ISSN 1368-0374.
- ^ Cust, Robert N., "KOLARIAN FAMILY", A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies, doi:10.4324/9781315012070-9/kolarian-family-robert-cust, retrieved 2022-06-28