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Kupia

A language of India

ISO 639-3: key

Population	6,600 (2007). Ethnic population: 79,000 Valmiki.
Region	Andhra Pradesh, Vishakhapatnam, East Godavari districts.
Alternate names	Valmiki
Classification	Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Eastern zone, Oriya
Language use	Used only in the home. Also use Telegu [tel].
Language development	Literacy rate in L2: 40%. NT: 1983.
Writing system	Telugu script.
Comments	A Scheduled Tribe. People called ‘Valmiki’. Ethnic Valmiki not the same as L1 Kupia speakers. Agriculturalists. Traditional religion mixed with Hinduism, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

CHRISTMAS, J. Elisabeth; CHRISTMAS, Raymond B., authors. 1973. "Clause patterns in Kupia."  

CHRISTMAS, J. Elisabeth; CHRISTMAS, Raymond B., authors. 1973. "Kupia texts."  

CHRISTMAS, J. Elisabeth; CHRISTMAS, Raymond B., authors. 1973. "Sentence patterns in Kupia."  

CHRISTMAS, J. Elisabeth; CHRISTMAS, Raymond B., authors. 1975. Kupia phonemic summary.

TRAIL, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 1: Sentence and discourse.  

TRAIL, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 2: Clause.  

TRAIL, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 3: Texts.  

TRAIL, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 4: Word lists.