Desia | |
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Desiya, Desia Odia, Kotia, Adivasi Odia, Koraputi Odia, Southwestern 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, Kotia [2] , Adivasi Odia [2] , Desia Odia or Koraputia [3] 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. [4] The variant spoken in Koraput is called Koraputia. [3]
Desia serves as the lingua franca among the different ethnic groups in the area [5] and is the major regional tribal-non-tribal dialect continuum of the undivided Koraput district of the Southwestern Odisha region. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Desia variety has 21 consonant phonemes, 2 semivowel phonemes and 6 vowel phonemes. [11]
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a | ɔ |
There are no long vowels in Desia just like Standard Odia.
Labial | Alveolar /Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | |||
Stop/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | ʈ | tʃ | k | |
voiceless aspirated | |||||||
voiced | b | d | ɖ | dʒ | ɡ | ||
voiced aspirated | |||||||
Fricative | s | ɦ | |||||
Trill/Flap | ɾ | ɽ ~ ɽʰ | |||||
Lateral approximant | l | ||||||
Approximant | w | j |
Desia shows the loss of retroflex consonant like voiced retroflex lateral approximant [ ɭ ] (ଳ) which are present in Standard Odia, and a limited usage of retroflex unaspirated nasal (voiced retroflex nasal) ɳ (ଣ). [12]
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