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Sora
Spoken in:India
Total speakers:288,000 (1997)
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Language codes
ISO 639-1:none
ISO 639-2:—
ISO 639-3:srb


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 in eastern India, 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.

The Sora people are a dwindling jungle tribe with a distinctive shamanic culture. According to an article in Natural History, "a shaman, usually a woman, serves as an intermediary between the two worlds [of the living and the dead]. During a trance, her soul is said to climb down terrifying precipices to the underworld, leaving her body for the dead to use as their vehicle for communication. One by one the spirits speak through her mouth. Mourners crowd around the shaman, arguing vehemently with the dead, laughing at their jokes, or weeping at their accusations."[1]

Further reading

  • Veṅkaṭarāmamūrti, G. (1986). Sora-English dictionary. Delhi: Mittal Publication.

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languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families, Indo-European (whose branch Indo-Aryan is spoken by about 74% of the population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 24%).
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Coordinates: Orissa pronunciation   (help info ) (Oriya: ଓଡ଼ିଶା), is a state situated on the east coast of India.
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Ganjam District is a district in the Indian state of Orissa located on the border of Andhra Pradesh. Ganjam's total area is 8,070 km² (3,116 mi²). Its population is approximately 2,704,056.
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Koraput is a tribal dominated district of Orissa, India, and known for rich and diverse types of mineral deposits. It is located along the Eastern Ghats.

This district abounds in meadows, forests, waterfalls, terraced valleys and darting springs.
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Andhra Pradesh [1](Telugu: ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్, ]
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Bihar (Hindi: िबहार, Urdu: بہار, IPA: [bɪhaːr], pronunciation
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Tamil Nadu (Tamil: தமிழ்நாடு pronunciation  
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Coordinates: West Bengal (Bengali: পশ্চিমবঙ্গ Poshchimbôŋgo) is a state in eastern India.
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Coordinates: Assam pronunciation   (help info ) (Assamese:
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Latin alphabet
Child systems Numerous: see Alphabets derived from the Latin
Sister systems Cyrillic
Coptic
Armenian
Runic/Futhark
Unicode range See Latin characters in Unicode
ISO 15924 Latn

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Telugu script, an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write Telugu, a Dravidian Language found in the Southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh as well as several other neighboring states.
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