Glottolog 5.1 - Desiya

Bookkeeping: Desiya

This entry has been retired and is featured here only for bookkeeping purposes. Either the entry has been replaced with one or more more accurate entries or it has been retired because it was based on a misunderstanding to begin with.

Endangerment

AES status:: not endangered
Source:: David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2024
Comment:: Desiya (dso-dso) = 3 (Wider communication). Native to India; became dominant around the second half of the 19th century under British rule. Used in literature, poetry, music, song, trade, and interethnic communication.

E16/E17/E18/E19/E20/E21/E22/E23/E24/E25/E26/E27 has two languages Desiya [dso] and Adivasi Oriya [ort]. These names simply divide the speakers of the same language along a state border ( Khageswar Mahapatra 1992 , Mahapatra, B. P. 2002 , Gustafsson, Uwe 1989 ) leaving one of the entries spurious. I wish to thank Felix Rao for clarifying the status of these two entries to me. See also: Kotia-Adivasi Oriya-Desiya [ort].