| Sora | |
|---|---|
| Savara | |
| Spoken in | India |
| Ethnicity | Sora |
| Native speakers | 310,000 (2007) |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| 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.
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 alphabet and the Telugu script, and also in 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. 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.[1]
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