Desia language

Desia, also Desiya or Desia Odia or Koraputi Odia or Southwestern Odia, is an Indo-Aryan language variety (sociolinguistically considered as a dialect of Odia) spoken in Koraput, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Malkangiri districts Odisha and in the hilly regions of Vishakhapatnam and Vizianagaram districts of Andhra Pradesh. The variant spoken in Koraput is called Koraputia.

Desia serves as the lingua franca among the different ethnic groups in the area and is the major regional tribal-non-tribal dialect continuum of the undivided Koraput district of the Southwestern Odisha region.

Phonology
Desia variety has 21 consonant phonemes, 2 semivowel phonemes and 6 vowel phonemes.

There are no long vowels in Desia just like Standard Odia.

Desia shows the loss of retroflex consonant like voiced retroflex lateral approximant ( ଳ ) which are present in Standard Odia, and a limited usage of retroflex unaspirated nasal (voiced retroflex nasal)  ( ଣ ).