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Bhumij are a tribal/Adivasi people living primarily in the Indian states of West Bengal Odisha and Jharkhand mostly in the old Singhbhum district. They speak the Mundari language of the Austroasiatic language family or sometimes the predominant local language such as Bengali. In the 2001 census they numbered 336436 in West Bengal accounting for 7.6 per cent of the scheduled caste population of the state.