Desia,^[1] also known asDesiya,Kotia,^[2]Adivasi Odia^[2],Desia Odia orKoraputia^[3] is anIndo-Aryanlanguage variety, spoken inKoraput,Nabarangpur,Rayagada,Malkangiri districtsOdisha and in the hilly regions ofVishakhapatnam andVizianagaram districts ofAndhra Pradesh.^[4] The variant spoken in Koraput is calledKoraputia.^[3]

Desia language serves as thelingua 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 language has 19 consonant phonemes, 2 semivowel phonemes and 6 vowel phonemes.^[11]

There are no long vowels in Desia just like Standard Odia.

Desia shows the loss of retroflex consonant likevoiced 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]

• Masica, Colin (1991).The Indo-Aryan Languages. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0-521-29944-2.

• Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
• Languages of Odisha
• Odia language

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