Austroasiatic family

Mundari

c. 1000 CE – today Living

Mundari (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Austroasiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Austroasiatic → Proto-Munda → Mundari.

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Speakers
1.1M (1,100,000)
ISO 639-3
unr
Glottocode
mund1320

North Munda language of Jharkhand and neighbouring states, closely related to Santali and Ho.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Austroasiaticc. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Mundac. 1,500 BCE – 500 BCE
  3. Mundaric. 1000 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Munda.

Sources