Kupia language

{{Short description|Indo-Aryan language spoken in India}}

{{Redirect-distinguish|Kupia|Kupiah}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Kupia

|altname=Valmiki, Balmiki

|states=India

|region=Odisha, Andhra Pradesh

|ethnicity=79,000 (2007)

|speakers=6,600

|date=2007

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Indo-European

|fam2=Indo-Iranian

|fam3=Indo-Aryan

|fam4=Eastern

|fam5=Odia

|script=Odia, Telugu

|iso3=key

|glotto=kupi1238

|glottorefname=Kupia

}}

Kupia, or Balmiki, is an Indo-Aryan language related to Odia and spoken by Valmiki people in the Indian state of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The Valmiki are a tribal group, concentrated in the districts of Koraput of Odisha and Visakhapatnam of Andhra Pradesh.{{citation |title=An Ethnolinguistic Repositioning of the Balmiki Language of Odisha: A Bibliographic Appraisal |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346966868_An_Ethnolinguistic_Repositioning_of_the_Balmiki_Language_of_Odisha_A_Bibliographic_Appraisal |last1=Pattanayak |first1=Subrat Kalayan |last2=Dash |first2=Biswanandan |publisher=Centurion University of Technology and Management |date=December 2020 }}