Kolarian is a word first used by George Campbell. He described it as one of the three non-Aryan language families of India, which he made up, along with the
Tibeto-Burman
The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non- Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the Southeast Asian Massif ("Zomia") as well as parts of East Asia and South Asia. Around 60 million people spea ...
and the
Dravidian. It is group of
Munda languages
The Munda languages are a group of closely related languages spoken by about nine million people in India and Bangladesh. Historically, they have been called the Kolarian languages. They constitute a branch of the Austroasiatic language famil ...
of
Austro-asiatic languages
The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are t ...
in India.
The following languages as belonging to the group:
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Bondo
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Gadaba
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Ho
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Juang
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Kharia
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Korku
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Korwa
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Mundari
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Santali
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Savara
References
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Languages of India