Munda) in the state of India (2011)[1] Mundari is spoken in the Ranchi, Khunti, Seraikela Kharsawan and West Singhbhum, East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, and in the Mayurbhanj, Kendujhar, Baleshwar, Sundargarh district of Odisha by at least 1.1 million people.

The phonology of Mundari is similar to the surrounding closely related Austroasiatic languages but considerably different from either Indo-Aryan or Dravidian.

The Naguri and Kera dialects include aspirated stops as additional phonemes, here enclosed in parentheses.

Mandari is also written in native Mundari Bani, invented in the 1980s by Rohidas Singh Nag.

It has been claimed the Mundari has no word classes, so that nouns, verbs, and adjectives are distinguished only by context.