'''Kolarian''' is a word first used by George Campbell for Munda languages.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Campbell |first=G. |date=1869 |title=On the Races of India as Traced in Existing Tribes and Castes |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3014445 |journal=The Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1869-1870) |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=128–140 |doi=10.2307/3014445 |issn=1368-0374|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He described it as one of the three non-Aryan language families of India, along with the Tibeto-Burman and the Dravidian. It is a branch of Austro-asiatic languages spoken in the eastern regions of the Indians subcontinent, and is also known as Munda languages.<ref>{{Citation |last=Cust |first=Robert N. |title=KOLARIAN FAMILY, |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9781315012070-9/kolarian-family-robert-cust |work=A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies |doi=10.4324/9781315012070-9/kolarian-family-robert-cust |access-date=2022-06-28}}</ref> Its not a single tribal language but a group of tribal family languages. The speakers are called Kolarian tribes.
The following languages belong to the group:
* Asur language (Asuri language) * Bhumij language * Birhor language * Bonda language * Gutob language (Gadaba language) * Ho language * Juang language * Kharia language * Koda language (Kora language) * Kol language (Bangladesh) * Korku language * Korwa language * Mundari language * Santali language * Sora language (Savara language) *
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Category:Languages of India