Kupia language

Kupia
	Valmiki
Native to	India
Region	Telangana, Andhra Pradesh
Ethnicity	79,000 (2007)[1]
Native speakers	6,600 (2007)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Oriya Kupia; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Telugu script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	key
Glottolog	kupi1238[2]

Kupia is an Indo-Aryan language related to Odia and spoken by Valmiki people in the Indian state of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The Valmiki are a tribal group, concentrated in the agency area of Hyderabad, Mahabubnagar, Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, East Godavari and Visakhapatnam districts.

Kupia script

Kupia language is written using Kupia alphabet that was created by Sathupati Prasanna Sree.

References

Kupia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kupia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Kupia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kupia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.