Munda
Lands
Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Bihar in India, with communities in Bangladesh
Countries India, Bangladesh
Facts 3
Language
Mundari has its own script, known in the community as Mundari Bani; a version reformed in 2008 by Munda community bodies is in the Unicode Standard.
As of 2008 Source: Unicode Consortium, Chapter 13, South and Central Asia-II (The Unicode Standard, Version 18.0) (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Culture
Munda call their dance durang and their song susun, and both women and men dance at social events and seasonal festivals.
Source: Dr. Ramdayal Munda Tribal Welfare Research Institute, Jharkhand, Munda (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Culture
The Munda call themselves Hodoko, which means human in their own language, Mundari.
Source: Odisha State Tribal Museum (SCSTRTI, Government of Odisha), Odisha State Tribal Museum: Munda (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
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