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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. Although the name Sora is also pronounced Savara, it is not related to the
Dravidian language that is also called Savara. It is written in the Latin and Telugu scripts, as well as the Sorang Sompeng
script devised for the language in 1936. Sora people have the family name or surname as Savara. This language belongs to Munda
Division of Austroasiatic language family. This language is spoken in Vizianagaram and Srikakulam Districts of Andhra Pradesh
and Orissa in India. Prof. K Ramesh Kumar, Department of Linguistics, Osmania University, and Mr Vedantham Muralidhar Linguist
Osmania University developed Primers for Classes I & II under MLE Programme. Mr.G.V. Ramesh, MLE Linguist, Rajiv Vidya Mission,
School Education Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh with the help of Mr. Mark Penny, Computer Linguistic Copnsultant,
SIL is developing Textbooks and Multilingual Dictionary for Multilingual Educatuion Programme for the Sora Community Children.
ITDA, Sitampeta, Srikakulam and ITDA, Parvatipuram, Vizaianagaram are taking care of welfare of Sora people and its community.
Late Gidugu Venkat Rama murthi has done a wonderful job for the welfare of Sora community. He has published English-Sora and
Sora–English Dictionaries and Primers to educate the Sora People. Sora was one of the subjects of Ironbound Films' 2008 American
documentary film The Linguists, in which two linguists attempted to document several moribund languages. |
Names (more)[en] Sora language[la] Lingua Sora [pl] Język sora [th] ภาษาโสรา |
Language type : Living
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