Kupia language

Kupia
Kupia
Valmiki, Balmiki
Native to	India
Region	Odisha, Andhra Pradesh
Ethnicity	79,000 (2007)
Native speakers	6,600 (2007)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Odia Kupia; ; ; ; ;
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.^[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

[e18-1] Kupia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[balmiki-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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