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Desia language

Desia
Desiya, Desia Odia, Kotia, Adivasi Odia, Koraputi Odia, Southwestern Odia
ଦେଶିଆ
Native toIndia
RegionOdisha (Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada, Nabarangpur) & Andhra Pradesh ( Vizianagaram District, Alluri Sitharama Raju district , Visakhapatnam District, Anakapalli district)
EthnicityOdias
Native speakers
230,000 (2011 census)
Odia
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
dso – Desiya
ort – Adivasi Oriya
Glottologadiv1239
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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]

Phonology

Desia variety has 21 consonant phonemes, 2 semivowel phonemes and 6 vowel phonemes.[11]

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 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]

References

  1. ^ Masica (1991:426)
  2. ^ a b "The World Atlas of Languages". UNESCO. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  3. ^ a b Belavadi, Vasuki; Jena, Aniruddha (2022), Kaushik, Alankar; Suchiang, Abir (eds.), "Reinforcing Desia Culture Through Community Radio: A Cultural Analysis of Radio Dhimsa in Koraput, Odisha", Narratives and New Voices from India, vol. 8, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 73–83, doi:10.1007/978-981-19-2496-5_6, ISBN 978-981-19-2495-8, retrieved 2024-11-02
  4. ^ "Desiya", in Eberhard, David M., Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig, eds. (2020). Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty-third edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
  5. ^ Gustafsson, Uwe (1978). "Procedural discourse in Kotia Oriya". In Joseph E. Grimes (ed.), Papers on discourse, 283-97. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  6. ^ Mohan, Shriya (January 10, 2018). "Speak up, India". The Hindu.
  7. ^ Vishnu, Uma (May 15, 2016). "This way to school: How dismal indicators for education in Odisha's Nabarangpur are slowly changing". The Indian Express.
  8. ^ "Census of India : Linguistic survey of India Orissa".
  9. ^ Mahapatra, B.P. (2002). Linguistic Survey of India: Orissa (PDF). Kolkata, India: Language Division, Office of the Registrar General. p. 2. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  10. ^ Mahapatra, B.P. (2002). Linguistic Survey of India: Orissa (PDF). Kolkata, India: Language Division, Office of the Registrar General. p. 20. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  11. ^ Mahapatra, B.P. (2002). Linguistic Survey of India: Orissa (PDF). Kolkata, India: Language Division, Office of the Registrar General. p. 94,95. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  12. ^ Tripathī, Kunjabihari (1962). The Evolution of Oriya Language and Script. Utkal University. Retrieved 21 March 2021.

Further reading

  • Masica, Colin (1991). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29944-2.
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desia_language