Desia language

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Desia
Desiya, Desia Odia
ଦେଶିଆ
Native to India
Region Odisha (Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada, Nabarangpur) & Andhra Pradesh ( Vizianagaram District, Alluri Sitharama Raju district , Visakhapatnam District, Anakapalli district)
Ethnicity Odias
Native speakers
230,000 (2011 census)
Odia
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
dso   Desiya
ort   Adivasi Oriya
Glottolog adiv1239

Desia, [1] also Desiya or Desia Odia or Koraputi Odia or Southwestern Odia, is an Indo-Aryan language variety (sociolinguistically considered as a dialect of Odia) spoken in Koraput, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Malkangiri districts Odisha and in the hilly regions of Vishakhapatnam and Vizianagaram districts of Andhra Pradesh. [2] The variant spoken in Koraput is called Koraputia.

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Desia serves as the lingua franca among the different ethnic groups in the area [3] and is the major regional tribal-non-tribal dialect continuum of the undivided Koraput district of the Southwestern Odisha region. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Phonology

Desia variety has 21 consonant phonemes, 2 semivowel phonemes and 6 vowel phonemes. [9]

Desia vowel phonemes
Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e o
Low a ɔ

There are no long vowels in Desia just like Standard Odia.

Desia consonant phonemes
Labial Alveolar
/Dental
Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Stop/
Affricate
voiceless p t ʈ k
voiceless aspirated
voiced b d ɖ ɡ
voiced aspirated
Fricative s ɦ
Trill/Flap ɾ ɽ ~ ɽʰ
Lateral approximant l
Approximant w j

Desia shows loss of both voiceless and voiced aspirated consonants as well as retroflex consonants like retroflex unaspirated nasal(voiced retroflex nasal) ɳ () and voiced retroflex lateral approximant [ ɭ ] () which are present in Standard Odia.

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References

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