Birhor language
| Birhor | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Ethnicity | Birhor people |
Native speakers | difficult to estimate; 1,000 (1991) to 2,000 (2007)[1] |
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Austroasiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
biy |
| Glottolog |
birh1242[2] |
The Birhor language is a highly endangered Munda language spoken by the Birhor people in Chhatisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal, and Maharashtra states in India.[1]
According to Vidyarthi (1960:519), the Birhor are found mostly in Chota Nagpur and Santhal Paragana, with the Uthlu Birhors living near Bishunpur, Gumla district, Jharkhand (along the western border with Chhattisgarh).
References
- Roy, Sarat Chandra. 1925. The Birhors: a little-known jungle tribe of Chota Nagpur. Ranchi: K.E.M. Mission Press.
- Vidyarthi, L. P. 1960. The Birhor (the little nomadic tribe of India). In Wallace, Anthony F. C. (ed.), Men and cultures: selected papers of the Fifth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Philadelphia, September 1–9, 1956, 519-525. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press.
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