| Kupia | |
|---|---|
| Valmiki, Balmiki | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Odisha, Andhra Pradesh |
| Ethnicity | 79,000 (2007) [1] |
Native speakers | 6,600 (2007) [1] |
| 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. [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