Korwa
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Korwa is located in Sultanpur District Uttar Pradesh, India and is home to HAL's Avionics Division that has produced DARIN upgrade for the SEPECAT Jaguar and supplied similar electronic systems for MiG-27 aircraft.
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Korwa people and their language:
Korwa people are one of the primitive tribes in India. They live in hills and forest of Chhotanagpur; the bordering area of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. They are socially and economically poor and out-sider often look them down because of this. Government implemented few facility for them; like roads to their settlement, boys hostels for education, providing agricultural aid etc.
The mother tongue of Korwa people is Korwa [1];it is named after their name. The alternative names for this language are Ernga, Singli[2], however, the Korwa people call their language as their Bhashi, which means local language. This language belongs to Munda or Austro-Asiatic language family. The main dialect of Korwa is called Majhi Korwa [3]. It is spoken basically by Korwa, but few local Kodaku[4] people also speak Korwa. Korwa and Kodaku said to have some similarity. Korwa people also speak Sadri and Chhattisgarhi as their second language.
