Koln.
/kəʊl/, U.S. /koʊl/ India.
Mundu-speaking peoples of Chota Nagpur and Bengal in India (see also quot. 1896); a member of any of these peoples. Also attributive or as adj. , of or relating to any of these peoples or their languages.
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Mewati1788
Khasi1789
Kol1795
Yusufzai1815
Bhil1823
Meo1832
Dogra1834
Mundari1872
Shin1875
the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [adjective] > specific Austroasiatic
Annamitic1820
Annamite1843
Annamese1848
Santal1852
Munda1854
Khasi1855
Santalic1875
Mon-Khmer1887
Kol1903
Korku1906
Temiar1933
Mon1939
Vietnamese1947
the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austroasiatic > Munda > north Munda languages
Kolarian1866
Mundari1871
Korwa1872
Kol1903
Ho1906
Korku1906
1795 J. Blunt Jrnl. 2 Feb. in Asiatick Researches (1801) 7 61 Not wishing to injure the Coles by encamping on the little spots, which, with much care and toil, they had cleared..we took up our abode..in the jungle.
1827 R. Jenkins Rep. Territories Rajah of Nagpore ii. 30 The Koorkoo dialect is found to resemble that spoken by the Lurka Koles, on the frontier of Singbhoom.
1847 B. H. Hodgson On Aborigines India p. ii The Kól or Dhánger race.
1847 B. H. Hodgson On Aborigines India iii. 149 The Kóls are indeed, as enterprising as industrious.
1847 B. H. Hodgson On Aborigines India iii. 150 Kól is an old and classical name, and the best I think for the great mass of aborigines intervening between the Bhils, the Gonds, and the Ganges—at least till we know them better.
1866 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 35: Pt. ii (Special No.) 154 The present population..are of the race best known to us by the name of ‘Kol’.
1871 E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 2) II. I-39/2 That geographical distribution of the Kol and Dravidian languages.
1872 E. T. Dalton Descr. Ethnol. Bengal v. i. 125 The Kols rejecting all change adhered to their impurity of life.
1896 W. Crooke Tribes & Castes N.-W. Provinces & Oudh III. 294 Kol, a Dravidian tribe found in considerable numbers along the Vindhya Kaimûr plateau.
1899 A. H. Keane Man Past & Present xiv. 558 The Kols or Kolarians, who formerly overspread the plains of Bengal.
1903 H. H. Risley & E. A. Gait Rep. Census India 1901 i. 282 The Kol language has..two main dialects, Mundari and Ho.
1931 E. A. H. Blunt Caste System N. India xiv. 287 The Kol is a tribe of aboriginal jungle folk, akin to the Bengal Mundas.
1957 C. B. Mamoria Tribal Demogr. India iv. 62 In the iron-ore industry..the labour force..consists of largely Santhals and Kols.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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