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Kolarian|kəʊˈlɛərɪən|
[f. Kolar (see quot. 1869) + -ian.]
A non-Aryan linguistic stock of India, the Munda group. Also as adj., of or pertaining to this stock.
1866G. Campbell in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal XXXV. ii. 28, I propose then to call the northern tribes Kolarian or Coolee Aborigines. 1869― in Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. London I. 130, I designate these tribes ‘Kolarian’ (as distinguished from the Dravidians), from the name Kol, Kolee or Coolee, applied to many of them, and the old name ‘Kolar’ by which India was known in very ancient times. 1915Risley & Crooke People of India (ed. 2) i. 48 The hypothesis of the north-eastern origin of the Kolarians depends on the fancied recognition of Mongolian characteristics among the people of Chutia Nāgpur. 1923A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. iii. 46 Typical representatives [of Indo-Australian people] are the Vedda of Ceylon; the Irula and some of the Kolarian tribes of India. 1928V. G. Childe Most Anc. East iii. 52 Early Indian races, particularly the Dravidians, the Kolarians, and even the Veddahs of Ceylon. 1957G. S. Ghurye Mahadev Kolis i. 6 Kolis of Bombay..do not show the slightest trace of Kolarian tongue in their languages. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-Europ. Lang. 226 Munda or Kolarian are names given to a group of languages spoken today in the central part of India. |