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Indo-Aryan language spoken in India "Kupia" redirects here. Not to be confused with Kupiah.
Kupia
Valmiki, Balmiki
Native toIndia
RegionOdisha, Andhra Pradesh
Ethnicity79,000 (2007)
Native speakers6,600 (2007)
Language familyIndo-European
Writing systemOdia, Telugu
Language codes
ISO 639-3key
Glottologkupi1238

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.

Script

Kupia language is usually written in Odia or Telugu script depending on the region where the community lives. A new Kupia alphabet was also created by Sathupati Prasanna Sree.

References

  1. ^ Kupia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ 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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