Kotia

Kotia

Kotia is spoken by the Kotia, a scheduled tribe who live mainly
in the Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh in India. According
to the 1991 census the Kotia population is 41,591. Kotia is an
Indo-Aryan language related to Oriya, and alternative names for the
language include Adivasi Oriya, Kotia Oriya, Kotiya and Tribal Oriya

Parts of the Bible have been translated into Kotia, and the
Telugu script is used to write the language, though only about
18% of the Kotia are literate.

Kotia script

This is a script for Kotia devised by Professor Prasanna Sree.

Kotia script

Information provided by Professor Prasanna Sree
of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Links

Information about the Kotia language
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ort

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