Kolarian
title: "Kolarian" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["languages-of-india"] topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolarian" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
Kolarian is a word first used by George Campbell for Munda languages. 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 Indians subcontinent, and is also known as Munda languages. 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)
References
References
- 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).
- Cust, Robert N.. "KOLARIAN FAMILY,". A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies.
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