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Munda

The English word “Munda” has 2 meanings listed here.

proper noun

  1. An Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.

noun

  1. Any member of the indigenous people who speak one of the Munda languages.

Etymology

From a name in Munda, coined by philologist Max Müller to distinguish the family from Dravidian.

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