Kupia | |
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Valmiki, Balmiki | |
Native to | India |
Region | Odisha, Andhra Pradesh |
Ethnicity | 79,000 (2007) |
Native speakers | 6,600 (2007) |
Language family | Indo-European |
Writing system | Odia, Telugu |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | key |
Glottolog | kupi1238 |
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
- ^ Kupia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ 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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