Bhumij | |
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ভূমিজ, ଭୁମିଜ୍, भूमिज | |
![]() The word "Bhumij" in Ol Onal script | |
Native to | Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, India |
Ethnicity | Bhumij people |
Native speakers | 27,506 (2011 census) |
Austroasiatic
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Ol Onal script
Others: Devanagari script, Odia script, Bengali script | |
Official status | |
Official language in | ![]()
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
unr-bhu | |
Glottolog | bhum1234 Bhumij |
ELP | Bhumij |
![]() Distribution of Bhumij language in India | |
![]() Bhumij is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[1] |
Bhumij is an Austroasiatic language belonging to the Munda subfamily, related to Ho, Mundari, and Santali, primarily spoken by Bhumij peoples in the Indian states Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal.[2][3] As per the 2011 census, only 27,506 people out of 911,349 Bhumij people spoke Bhumij as their mother tongue, as most Bhumijas have shifted to one of the regional dominant languages.[4][5][6] Thus the language is considered an extremely endangered language.[7][8]
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