The Munda languages of India belong to which language family?
Austroasiatic
The Munda languages, spoken by tribal communities mainly in the Chhotanagpur plateau region (Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh), form a branch of the Austroasiatic language family.
Santali, the most widely spoken Munda language, along with Ho, Mundari and Kharia, all belong to this group, which also includes Mon-Khmer languages of Southeast Asia.
Sino-Tibetan covers languages like Bodo and Manipuri, Indo-Aryan covers Hindi and related languages, and Dravidian covers Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, none of which include Munda.
Hence, the Munda languages belong to the Austroasiatic language family.
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