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Koya language

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Koya
కోయా, କୋୟା, कोया
Native to	India
Ethnicity	Koya
Native speakers	455,000 (2011)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian South-Central Gondi–Kui Gondi languages Koya
Writing system	Telugu, Odia, Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`kff`
Glottolog	`koya1251`

Koya is a South-Central Dravidian language of the Gondi–Kui group spoken in central and southern India. It is the native language of the Koya people. It is sometimes described as a dialectofGondi, but it is mutually unintelligible with Gondi dialects.^[2]^[3]

Koya is the language spoken by the tribal community in Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA),Rampachodavaram, East Godavari district ; ITDA,Kotaramachandrapuram, West Godavari district; ITDA,BhadrachalaminKhammam districtinAndhra Pradesh. The Koyas also live in the southernmost part of SukmainChhattisgarh and Malkangiri, the southwesternmost district of Odisha.

Koya is variously written in the Oriya, Telugu, DevanagariorLatin script. Sathupati Prasanna Sree has also developed a unique script for use with the Koya language. With 270,994 registered native speakers, it figures at rank 37 in the 1991 Indian census.^{[citation needed]} There are textbooks developed in Koya language under Mother Tongue based Multilingual Education Programme by Government of Andhra Pradesh and implemented in 50 primary schools in Koya habitations.