South Munda languages

E735917

South Munda languages are a subgroup of the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic language family, spoken primarily in eastern and central India and distinguished by shared phonological and grammatical features.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
South Munda 1
South Munda languages canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Munda languages
language subgroup
arealFeature contact with Dravidian languages
contact with Indo-Aryan languages
comparedWith North Munda languages NERFINISHED
country India
differFrom North Munda languages in lexicon
North Munda languages in morphology
North Munda languages in phonology
glottologCode sout3145 (South Munda)
hasMember Bonda language NERFINISHED
Didayi language NERFINISHED
Gorum language NERFINISHED
Gtaʼ language
Gtaʼ–Remo group NERFINISHED
Gutob language
Juang language NERFINISHED
Juang–Remo group NERFINISHED
Kharia language NERFINISHED
Remo language NERFINISHED
Sora language NERFINISHED
Sora–Gorum group NERFINISHED
hasSubclassification Koraput Munda subgroup
Sora–Gorum subgroup NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austroasiatic NERFINISHED
linguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
complex agreement systems
contrastive vowel length in some languages
distinctive consonant clusters
rich verbal morphology
shared grammatical features
shared phonological features
use of suffixes for case marking
verb-final word order tendency
partOf Austroasiatic language family NERFINISHED
Munda languages NERFINISHED
region central India
eastern India
spokenBy Munda peoples NERFINISHED
indigenous communities of eastern India
spokenIn Andhra Pradesh NERFINISHED
Chhattisgarh NERFINISHED
Jharkhand NERFINISHED
Odisha NERFINISHED
Telangana NERFINISHED
status many languages endangered
subgroupOf Munda branch of Austroasiatic NERFINISHED
writingSystem often written in Odia script for some languages
often written in Telugu script for some languages

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North Munda languages contrastsWith South Munda languages
Kharia language subfamily South Munda languages
this entity surface form: South Munda