Austroasiatic · ISO 639-3 unr
Mundari Language मुंडारि
Mundari is an Austroasiatic language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Devanagari, Bangla and Latin scripts.
Where Mundari is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Mundari language
Mundari (मुंडारि) is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 382nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Takwane (1.5 million) and ahead of Makhuwa-Shirima (1.5 million). It belongs to the Austroasiatic language family and, more precisely, to the Ho-Mundari group within the North Munda branch.
Where is Mundari spoken?
Mundari is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in India (1.3 million) and Nepal (5,602).
Share of the population that speaks Mundari: India <0.1% (1.3 million) and Nepal <0.1% (5,602).
Mundari is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Mundari is written in the Devanagari, Bangla, Latin and 1 more scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Ho and Santali.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 unr.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.