Kolarian

plural Kolarians

1. One of the Kol people.

   It is the Kolarian and Waryn that have attacked,” he said trembling.

   2003, Aisline Earthstorm, Carpathia Tuathenia, →ISBN, page 13

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   Chanda (1969) strongly advocate that the 'Munda' was spoken language of the Kolarians. He also opines that some of Kolarians who were in contact with the Aryans and the Dravidians used Indo-Aryan and Dravidian dialects.

   2002, Shiv Kumar Tiwari, Tribal Roots of Hinduism, →ISBN, page 253

   The Kolarians seem to have entered India from the north-east—just as the Aryans afterwards entered it from the north-west—and extended themselves over vast areas from which they were subsequently driven by Dravidians and Aryans.

   2012, Reginald Fleming Johnston, From Peking to Mandalay, →ISBN

1. The language or language family spoken by the Kolarian people.

   Neo-Indian has retained a few prepositions. Dravidian and Kolarian have none.

   1969, Demetrius Charles Boulger, Asian Review, page 504

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   Kol, Munda, and the dialects classed as "other Kolarian " are recorded almost solely from Sambalpur and the Uria States.

   1893, Census of India, 1891

   3,000,000, held aloof from outside influences, retained their tribal usages and primitive religion, and may now be distinguished by their Kolarian speech.

   1909, L. Krishna Anantha Krishna Iyer (Diwan Bahadur), The Cochin tribes and castes, page xxviii