Kotia is spoken by the Kotia, a scheduled tribe who live mainly in the Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh in India. According to the 1991 census the Kotia population is 41,591. Kotia is an Indo-Aryan language related to Odia, and alternative names for the language include Adivasi Odia, Kotia Odia, Kotiya and Tribal Odia
Parts of the Bible have been translated into Kotia, and the Telugu script is used to write the language, though only about 18% of the Kotia are literate.
This is a script for Kotia devised by Professor Prasanna Sree.
Information provided by Professor Prasanna Sree of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Information about the Kotia language
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ort
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