Sora language
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| Sora | ||
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| Spoken in: | India | |
| Total speakers: | 288,000 (1997) | |
| Language family: | Austro-Asiatic Munda Koraput Munda Sora |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | srb | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Sora (also Saora, Saonras, Shabari, Sabar, Saura, Savara, Sawaria, Swara, Sabara) is a Munda language of India, spoken by some 288,000 native speakers (1997) in South Orissa, mainly in the Ganjam District, but also in the Koraput and Phulbani districts; other communities exist in Andhra Pradesh (Srikakulam District), Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and the Plains Division of Assam.
It is written in the Latin alphabet and the Telugu script, and also in the Sorang Sompeng script devised for the language in 1936.
