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|ref8 = <ref>{{cite web|title=Estimated Population by Castes, 7. Tripura – Census 1951 |year=1954 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/30195/download/33376/21102_1951_EST.pdf |publisher=Office of the Registrar General, India |page=11}}</ref>
| region9 = {{flag|Bangladesh}}
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| ref9 =<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bbs.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/bbs.portal.gov.bd/page/b343a8b4_956b_45ca_872f_4cf9b2f1a6e0/2022-07-28-14-31-b21f81d1c15171f1770c661020381666.pdf |title=Table 1.4 Ethnic Population by Group and Sex |year=2021 |publisher=Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics |page=33 |language=bn |access-date=15 August 2022 |archive-date=13 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813235827/https://bbs.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/bbs.portal.gov.bd/page/b343a8b4_956b_45ca_872f_4cf9b2f1a6e0/2022-07-28-14-31-b21f81d1c15171f1770c661020381666.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
| languages = [[Mundari language|Mundari]]{{*}} [[Bhumij language|Bhumij]]{{*}}[[#Language|Regional languages]]
| religions = [[Hinduism]]{{*}}[[Sarnaism]]
| related = [[Munda people|Munda]] {{•}} [[Kol people|Kol]] {{•}} [[Ho people|Ho]] {{•}} [[Santal]]
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| image =
| caption = Bhumijs dancing in their traditional attire
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=== Geographic distribution ===
[[File:Bhumij people distribution.svg|thumb|Distribution of Bhumij people, 2011 census]]
The Bhumijs are
In [[Bangladesh]], the Bhumij people came to the [[Sylhet region]] from [[Bihar]] as tea-labourers. They can be found in [[Sreemangal Upazila|Srimangal]] with a population of 3000. The Bhumijs lives in [[Sylhet Division|Sylhet]], [[Rajshahi Division|Rajshahi]], [[Khulna Division|Khulna]], [[Sreemangal Upazila|Srimangal]], [[Dhaka]] and [[Chittagong]] regions. They are divided into many clans (''killi'') such as Kaitra, Garur, Kasim, Bhugal, Baundra, Ban, Nag, Shona, Shar, Tresha, etc. Their Bhumij dialect is less and less spoken and Bengali is more widely spoken among the community.<ref name="bpedia">{{cite book|last=Jengcham|first=Subhash|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh|publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]|chapter=Bhumij|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bhumij}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.silbangladesh.org/sites/ban/files/story_of_an_ancestors_belief.pdf |website=silbangladesh |title=STORY OF AN ANCESTOR'S BELIEF |date=2022}}</ref>
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|label3 = [[Mundari language|Mundari]]
|value4 = 3.6
|label4 = Bhumijali{{efn|Bhumijali is a [[sociolect]] spoken by the (11.1 percent) Bhumij tribe of Odisha, which is a variety of the Odia language that incorporates Bhumij words and is distinct from the Mundari variety. Thus, in the census, it is categorized under the Odia language family. Similarly, Munda, Mundari, and Bhumj are often considered the same language, though they may also be distinct in certain contexts.}}
|value5 = 1.8
|label5 = [[Santali language|Santali]]
|value6 = 1.3
|label6 = [[Sadri language|Sadri]]
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Bhumij is the language of the Munda subfamily of the [[Austroasiatic languages]], related to Ho, Mundari and Santali, spoken mainly in the Indian states [[Jharkhand]], [[Odisha]] and [[West Bengal]]. According to the 2011 census, the Bhumij people total {{formatnum:869653}} in those three Scheduled States.<ref name=Census2011lang>{{multiref2|{{cite web|title=C-16: Population by mother tongue, India - 2011 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/10191/download/13303/DDW-C16-STMT-MDDS-0000.XLSX |publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India}}|{{cite web|title=ST-15: Scheduled tribe by mother tongue (for each tribe separately) (State/UT level), West Bengal - 2011 |publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/12551/download/15664/ST-19-00-15-DDW-2011.XLSX}} |{{cite web|title=ST-15: Scheduled tribe by mother tongue (for each tribe separately) (State/UT level), Odisha - 2011 |publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/12553/download/15666/ST-21-00-15-DDW-2011.XLSX}}|{{cite web|title=ST-15: Scheduled tribe by mother tongue (for each tribe separately) (State/UT level), Jharkhand - 2011 |publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/12552/download/15665/ST-20-00-15-DDW-2011.XLSX}}}} </ref> Among them, 58.1% speak Bengali, 17.6% speak Odia, 12.5% speak Mundari, 3.6% speak {{Not a typo|Bhumijali}}, 1.8% speak Santali, 1.3% speak Sadri, 1.3% speak Ho, 1% Munda, 1% Bhumij and 3.8% speak other local languages.<ref name=Census2011lang/> Bhumij living in other states and neighboring country Bangladesh primarily speak Bengali and Sadri. Across India, 27,506 people speak Bhumij as their mother tongue, with 24,164 (87.84%) from those three states. Within this group, 36.9% are spoken by the Bhumij tribe itself, 12.8% by other Scheduled Tribes, and the remaining 43.4% by Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Castes, and Non-Scheduled Communities.<ref name=Census2011lang/> However, it is claimed that Bhumij language spoken by around 100,000 people in India.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bhumij language and alphabet |url=https://omniglot.com/writing/bhumij.htm |access-date=19 April 2022 |website=omniglot.com}}</ref>
In January 2019, Bhumij was accorded the status of second language in the state of [[Jharkhand]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Jharkhand notifies Bhumij as second state language |url=https://avenuemail.in/jharkhand-notifies-bhumij-as-second-state-language/ |access-date=17 April 2022 |work=The Avenue Mail |date=5 January 2019}}</ref>
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