Santal
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/46078
- Name (English)
- Santal
- Short name
- Santhal
- Short Description
- "The Santal, or Santhal, are an ethnic group native to India and Bangladesh in South Asia. Santals are the largest tribe in the Jharkhand state of India in terms of population and are also found in the states of Assam, Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal. They are the largest ethnic minority in northern Bangladesh´s Rajshahi Division and Rangpur Division. They have a sizable population in Nepal and Bhutan. The Santals mostly speak Santali, an Austroasiatic language and that is the most widely-spoken of the Munda languages." - (en.wikipedia.org 10.10.2019)
- Entity Encoding
- siu
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