单词 | Munda |
释义 | Munda/ˈmʊndə![]() noun (plural same or Mundas) 1A member of a group of indigenous peoples living scattered in a region from east central India to Nepal and Bangladesh.Throughout central and southern India there are tribal populations such as Mundas, Oraons and Santals, there are Dravidian groups in southern India such as Tamils and the Malayalam-speaking peoples in Kerala....
2 [mass noun] A family of languages spoken by the Munda, distantly related to the Mon-Khmer family, with which they are sometimes classified as Austro-Asiatic. They have over 5 million speakers altogether; the most widely spoken is Santali.Austro-Asiatic languages (e.g., Munda, Ho, and Khasi) are spoken by tribal groups in central India and the northeastern hills....
2.1Any language of the Munda family. adjective Relating to or denoting the Munda or their languages.Yaldiz first came to India in the early 1960s, lived with the Munda tribals in the Santhal belt, learnt their language at about the same time that Meera Mukherjee had set about her own anthropological journey in the jungles of Bastar....
OriginThe name in Munda. Rhymes |
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