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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 and parts of Kalahandi district of Odisha and in the hilly regions of Vishakhapatnam and Vizianagaram districts of Andhra Pradesh.[2] The variant spoken in Koraput is called Koraputia.

Desia
Desiya, Desia Odia
ଦେଶିଆ
Native to	India
Region	Odisha (Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada, Nabarangpur, Kalahandi)
Ethnicity	Odias
Native speakers	227,313 (2011 census)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Odia Desia
Writing system	Odia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: dso – Desiya ort – Adivasi Oriya
Glottolog	adiv1239

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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]

Desia vowel phonemes

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e		o
Low		a	ɔ

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

Desia consonant phonemes

		Labial	Alveolar /Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n			ŋ
Stop/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	ʈ	tʃ	k
	voiceless aspirated
	voiced	b	d	ɖ	dʒ	ɡ
	voiced aspirated
Fricative			s				ɦ
Trill/Flap			ɾ	ɽ~ɽʰ
Lateral approximant			l
Approximant		w			j

Desia shows loss of both voiceless and voiced aspirated consonants as well as retroflex consonants like retroflex unaspirated nasal(voiced retroflex nasal) ɳ (ଣ) and voiced retroflex lateral approximant [ɭ] (ଳ) which are present in Standard Odia.

References

Further reading

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

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