Writing and Printing

Bhumij language

Bhumij is a Kherwarian Munda language of the Austroasiatic language family primarily spoken by the Bhumij peoples in the Indian states Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Assam. 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. Thus the language is considered an extremely endangered language. Ol Onal, a script specifically to write Bhumij, was invented by Mahendra Nath Sardar.

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• ▸Assamese language
• ▸Chyhyryn
• ▸Columnist

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