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)
^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
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