classification: "Austro-Asiatic; Munda; North Munda; Kherwarian",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "Greg Anderson: Language is locally endangered. Bhumij are heavily Hinduized and often switch to Indo-Aryan language(s) when adopting Hindu religious practices.",
private_comment: "",
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
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id:2108,
code_id:1601,
speaker_number: "100000",
speaker_number_text: "150,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id:17168,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:22835,
code_id:1601,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:29745,
code_id:1601,
speaker_number: "100000",
speaker_number_text: "over 100,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""Bhumij speakers still number perhaps over 100,000 but they are rapidly adopting Hinduism and abandoning their ancestral Kherwarian North Munda tongue in favor of a local Indo-Aryan variety." The Bhumij are sometimes incorrectly united with the Mundari and the Munda, despite being ethnically and linguistically distinct.",