Desia | |
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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.
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]
Desia variety has 21 consonant phonemes, 2 semivowel phonemes and 6 vowel phonemes. [9]
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
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 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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). [10]
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.
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]
Desia variety has 21 consonant phonemes, 2 semivowel phonemes and 6 vowel phonemes. [9]
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
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 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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). [10]