22. Language.
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Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
The Kols of the Central Provinces have practically abandoned their own language, Mundāri being retained only by about 1000 persons in 1911. The Kols and Mundas now speak the Hindu vernacular current in the tracts where they reside. Mundāri, Santāli, Korwa and Bhumij are practically all forms of one language which Sir G. Grierson designates as Kherwāri.22
Source notes
1Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Bhumij.
2The Mundas and their Country, p. 400.
3Linguistic Survey, Munda and Dravidian Languages, vol. vi. p. 7.
4Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Munda.
5Tribes and Castes of Bengal, p. 15.
6Introduction to The Mundas and their Country, p. 9.
7 Introduction to The Mundas and their Country, p. 9.
8 Garha is six miles from Jubbulpore.
9The Mundas and their Country, p. 124.
10Rāsmāla, i. p. 113.
11 Two baskets slung from a stick across the shoulders.
12 Dalton, Ethnology of Bengal, p. 166.
13 Dalton, p. 152.
14 November, January and February.
15Tribes and Castes, art. Munda.
16 Thuiya, Bhuiya is a mere jingle.
17J.A.S.B., No. 1 of 1903, p. 31.
18 Dalton, ibidem.
19 Mr. B. C. Mazumdār’s Monograph.
20 Roy, ibidem, p. 428.
21The Mundas and their Country, p. 121.
22Linguistic Survey, vol. iv., Munda and Dravidian Languages, p. 27.