What does "munda" mean?

Any member of the indigenous people who speak one of the Munda languages.

What is a synonym for "munda"?

Common synonyms include: language.

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Noun

1
Any member of the indigenous people who speak one of the Munda languages.
2
a family of languages spoken by people scattered throughout central India wordnet

Proper Noun

1
An Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.

"In India there are three major language families unrelated to one another: the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Munda languages."

From a name in Munda, coined by philologist Max Müller to distinguish the family from Dravidian.

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