Koda, also known asKora,Kaora,Korali,Korati,Kore,Mudi, orMudikora,^[2] is an endangeredMunda language ofIndia andBangladesh spoken by theKora. The Kora mainly live in West Bengal, in the districts ofPaschim Medinipur andBankura, with a few in neighbouringOdisha andJharkhand. In 2005, there were 1,300 speakers in theRajshahi Division of Bangladesh, though many said thatBengali was their best language. Koda is closely related to theKol language.

Kim et al. (2010)^[3] considers Koda and Kol to be Mundari cluster languages. Koda-speaking villages include Kundang and Krishnupur inRajshahi Division, Bangladesh, whileKol villages include Babudaing village.

Koda verbs are inflected for tense-aspect-mood and person, number, finite/infinite, subject/object, possessor, animacy and transitivity. In recent times Koda is code-mixing with Bangla: including vocabulary replacement and greater adoption of Bengali syntax. These processes are seen more in younger speakers.^[4]

Shamim (2021)^[5] presents a description of the phonology and morphology of Koda. It also presents a study of Koda in the context of language contact.

• The non-labial aspirated consonants (/t̪ʰ,d̪ʱ,ʈʰ,ɖʱ,cʰ,ɟʱ,kʰ,gʱ/) are found primarily inBengali loanwords.^[7]

• Vowel length and nasalization are not contrastive.^[9] Nasal vowels inBengali loanwords lose their nasality.^[10]
• Non-open vowels/ɛ,i,ɔ,u/ becomesemivowels[ɛ̯,i̯,ɔ̯,u̯] between vowels.^[11]
• /ɛ/ and/ɔ/ raise to[e] and[o] when the next syllable contains a close vowel.^[11]

• Shamim, Ahmed (June 2021).A Description of the Phonology and Morphology of Koda, An Endangered Language of Bangladesh (PhD thesis). City University of New York.

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