Korwa
A language of India
| Population | 66,000 (1997). Few monolinguals. |
| Region | Jharkhand, Palamau, Garhwa and Gumla districts; Chhattisgarh, Jashpur, Surguja, Raigarh, Korba, Bilaspur districts; Orissa, Mayurbhanj and Sundargarh districts; Uttar Pradesh, Mirzapur District; West Bengal; Andhra Pradesh; Maharashtra. |
| Alternate names | Ernga, Singli |
| Dialects | Majhi-Korwa. Lexical similarity: 71%–92% between dialects, 50%–70% with Kodaku [ksz], 26%–36% with local Sadri [sck] spoken by Dihari Korwa. Lexical similarity with Sadri (an Indo-Aryan language) shows noticeable influence of Sadri on Korwa. |
| Classification | Austro-Asiatic, Munda, North Munda, Kherwari, Mundari |
| Language use | Some Pahadi Korwa are shifting to Sadri [sck]. Dihari Korwa of Jashpur speak a local variety of Sadri as mother tongue. Some Korwa speak Chhattisgarhi [hne] as mother tongue. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 26% for Chhattisgarh. |
| Comments | A Scheduled Tribe in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal. Also a Scheduled Caste in Uttar Pradesh reportedly speaking Hindi as mother tongue. Korwa divided into two groups: Pahadi (hill dwellers) and Dihari (plains dwellers)(Singh 1995). They don’t intermarry. Agriculture, some hunter-gatherers. Hindu, Muslim. |
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