Koda language

Koda, also known as Kora, Kaora, Korali, Korati, Kore, Mudi, or Mudikora,[3] is an endangered Munda language of India and Bangladesh spoken by the Kora. The Kora mainly live in West Bengal, in the districts of Paschim Medinipur and Bankura, with a few in neighbouring Odisha and Jharkhand. There were 1,300 speakers in Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh in 2005, but many said that Bengali was their best language. Koda is closely related to the Kol language.

Koda
Native toIndia, Bangladesh
Ethnicity2.5 lakh Kora
Native speakers
47,268 (2011 census)[1]
Austroasiatic
  • Munda
    • North
      • Kherwarian
        • Mundaric
          • Koda
Language codes
ISO 639-3cdz
Glottologkoda1236
ELPKoda[2]

Kim (2010)[4] considers Koda and Kol to be Mundari cluster languages. Koda-speaking villages include Kundang and Krishnupur in Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh, while Kol villages include Babudaing village.

Koda verbs are inflected for tense-aspect-mood and person, number, finite/infinite, subject/object, possessor, animacy and transitivity. In recent times Koda is code-mixing with Bangla: including vocabulary replacement and greater adoption of Bengali syntax. These processes are seen more in younger speakers.[5]

References
  1. "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Koda.
  3. Simons, Gary F. and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). (2018). Koda. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Twenty-first edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2014-07-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Lahiri, Bornini. "Effect of Bangla on Koda verbs". Queries in Structure of Language: 131–137 – via ResearchGate.



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