Английская Википедия:Desia language
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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]
Phonology
Desia variety has 21 consonant phonemes, 2 semivowel phonemes and 6 vowel phonemes.[9]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | Шаблон:IPAlink | Шаблон:IPAlink | |
| Mid | Шаблон:IPAlink | Шаблон:IPAlink | |
| Low | Шаблон:IPA link | Шаблон:IPAlink |
There are no long vowels in Desia just like Standard Odia.
Desia shows loss of both voiceless and voiced aspirated consonants as well as retroflex consonants like retroflex unaspirated nasal(voiced retroflex nasal) Шаблон:IPAlink (Шаблон:Lang) and voiced retroflex lateral approximant Шаблон:IPAblink (Шаблон:Lang) which are present in Standard Odia.
References
Further reading
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- ↑ Masica (1991:426)
- ↑ "Desiya", in Eberhard, David M., Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig, eds. (2020). Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty-third edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
- ↑ Gustafsson, Uwe (1978). "Procedural discourse in Kotia Oriya". In Joseph E. Grimes (ed.), Papers on discourse, 283-97. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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