Indo-Aryan language spoken in India
| Kupia |
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| Valmiki, Balmiki |
| Native to | India |
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| Region | Odisha, Andhra Pradesh |
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| Ethnicity | 79,000 (2007)[1] |
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Native speakers | 6,600 (2007)[1] |
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Language family | |
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Writing system | Odia, Telugu |
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| Language codes |
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| ISO 639-3 | key |
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| Glottolog | kupi1238 |
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Kupia, or Balmiki, is an Indo-Aryan language related to Odia and spoken by Valmiki people in the Indian state of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The Valmiki are a tribal group, concentrated in the districts of Koraput of Odisha and Visakhapatnam of Andhra Pradesh.[2]
Script
Kupia language is usually written in Odia or Telugu script depending on the region where the community lives.[2] A new Kupia alphabet was also created by Sathupati Prasanna Sree.
References
- ^ a b Kupia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Pattanayak, Subrat Kalayan; Dash, Biswanandan (December 2020), An Ethnolinguistic Repositioning of the Balmiki Language of Odisha: A Bibliographic Appraisal, Centurion University of Technology and Management
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