The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.198

v1.c15.198

It is here that we find the Muṇḍā languages, which, like the Mon-Khmer languages of Assam and Burma, are surviving representatives of the Austric family of speech, the most widely diffused on earth. It has been traced ‘from Easter Island off the coast of South America in the east to Madagascar in the west, and from New Zealand in the south to the Punjab in the north’ (*Census Report*, 1911, I, p. 324).