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1a member of a group of indigenous peoples living scattered in a region from east central India to Nepal and Bangladesh.
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2 [mass noun] a family of languages spoken by the Munda, distantly related to the Mon-Khmer family, with which they are sometimes classified as Austro-Asiatic. They have over 5 million speakers altogether; the most widely spoken is Santali.
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any language of the Munda family.
