Kupia language

"Kupia" redirects here and is not to be confused with Kupiah.

Kupia, or Balmiki, is an Indo-Aryan language related to Odia and spoken by Valmiki people in the Indian state of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The Valmiki are a tribal group, concentrated in the districts of Koraput of Odisha and Visakhapatnam of Andhra Pradesh.^[2]

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

Script

Kupia language is usually written in Odia or Telugu script depending on the region where the community lives.^[2] A new Kupia alphabet was also created by Sathupati Prasanna Sree.