Re: [tied] Munda

Munda, I've read, is classified as one of the two branches of Austroasiatic; Mon-Khmer is the other. Of course that is disputed. Where are some good Munda-related websites anyway?

~DaW~

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From: markodegard@...

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Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 9:03 AM

Subject: [tied] Munda

I know next to nothing about Munda, but what I've read is intriguing. There seem to be a set of Mundaisms that came to Indic via Dravidian first. Munda itself seems to have some very ancient Dravidianisms. As I recall, however, direct Indic-Munda borrowings are rarer (my memory or my initial comprehension of what I read may be faulty here, however). It seems there not even sure if Munda is an independent language family or a branch of another (AustroAsian?). The situation is sort of like Hungary, where you get Uralic, IE and Turkic items all stirred together.