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, Rayagada,

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Odias The Odia (), formerly spelled Oriya, is an Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to the Indian state of Odisha who speak Odia language. They constitute a majority in the eastern coastal state, with significant minority populations in neighboring An ...

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Odia Odia, also spelled Oriya or Odiya, may refer to: * Odia people in Odisha, India * Odia language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family * Odia alphabet, a writing system used for the Odia languag ...

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, lc1=dso , ld1=Desiya , lc2=ort , ld2=Adivasi Oriya , glotto=adiv1239 , glottorefname=Kotia-Adivasi Oriya-Desiya Desia, also Desiya or Desia Odia or Koraputi Odia or Southwestern Odia, is an Indo-Aryan language variety ( sociolinguistically considered as a dialect of

) spoken in Koraput,

, Rayagada,

districts and little parts of Kalahandi district of Odisha and in the hilly regions of Vishakhapatnam and Vizianagaram districts of Andhra Pradesh. The variant spoken in Koraput is called ''Koraputia''. Desia serves as the

lingua franca A lingua franca (; ; for plurals see ), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups ...

among the different ethnic groups in the area and is the major regional tribal-non tribal dialect continuum of the undivided Koraput district of the Southwestern Odisha region.

Phonology

Desia variety has 21 consonant phonemes, 2 semivowel phonemes and 6 vowel phonemes. There are no long vowels in Desia just like Standard Odia. Desia shows loss of both voiceless and voiced aspirated consonants as well as retroflex consonants like retroflex unaspirated nasal(

voiced retroflex nasal The voiced retroflex nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is n`. Like all the retroflex consona ...

) () and voiced retroflex lateral approximant () which are present in Standard Odia.

Phonology

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