Munda people: Difference between revisions

The '''Munda people''' are an [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]]-speaking [[ethnic group]] of the [[Indian subcontinent]]. They speak [[Mundari language|Mundari]] as their native language, which belongs to the [[Munda languages|Munda subgroup]] of [[Austroasiatic languages]]. The Munda are found mainly concentrated in the south and East [[Chhotanagpur Plateau]] region of [[Jharkhand]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gupta |first1=Satya Prakash |title=Tribes of Chotanagpur Plateau: An Ethno-nutritional & Pharmacological Cross-section |date=1974 |publisher=Government of Bihar, Welfare Department |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0gAEAAAAMAAJ&q=munda+people+are+concentrated+in+chotanagpur+plateau |language=en |access-date=19 March 2023 |archive-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414192025/https://books.google.com/books?id=0gAEAAAAMAAJ&q=munda+people+are+concentrated+in+chotanagpur+plateau |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Odisha]] and [[West Bengal]].<ref name="census"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=December 2012 |title=Adivasi Volume 52, Number 1&2 |url=http://www.stscodisha.gov.in/pdf/June-Dec-2012-Vol-1-2.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=8 November 2016 |website=Web Archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108183956/http://www.stscodisha.gov.in/pdf/June-Dec-2012-Vol-1-2.pdf}}</ref> The Munda also reside in adjacent areas of [[Madhya Pradesh]] as well as in portions of [[Bangladesh]], [[Nepal]], and the state of [[Tripura]].<ref name="census"/><ref name="BD">{{cite web |title=Mundari Language |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/unr |website=Ethnologue |publisher=SIL International |access-date=20 October 2017 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420113123/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/unr |url-status=live}}</ref> They are one of India's largest [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|scheduled tribes]]. Munda people in [[Tripura]] are also known as '''Mura'''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tribesindia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=792&Itemid=104&lang=en |title=Homepage |access-date=14 December 2017 |archive-date=14 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214182942/http://tribesindia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=792&Itemid=104&lang=en |url-status=live}}</ref> Munda people are not Belong to Hindu.