| Language name: | MUNDARI |
| UPSID number: | 2300 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Austro-Asiatic, Munda |
| This language has | 37 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.323964763 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p ph b bh tD tDh dD dDh t. t.h d. d.h k kh g gh tS tSh dZ dZh s m nD n. lD l. r h ? N I "e a w "o j U |
| Comment: | Mundari is spoken in northeast India extending to Nepal, Bangladesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Vowels are nasalized adjacent to a nasal consonant. [?] is the syllable-final allophone of /k/ according to Gumperz & Bilibiri. Pinnow treats voiced plosives as glottalized consonants. |
| Source(s): | Gumperz, J.J. and Bilibiri, H.S. 1957. Notes on the phonology of Mundari. Indian Linguistics 17: 6-15. Pinnow, H-J. 1959. Versuch einer Historischen Lautlehre der Kharia-sprache. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. |