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{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Korwa<br />
|altname=Kodaku<br />
|nativename=कोरवा<br />
|states=[[India]]<br />
|region=<br />
|ethnicity=[[Korwa people|Korwa]] (75%), [[Kodaku people|Kodaku]] (25%)<br />
|speakers=28,453<br />
|date=2011 census<br />
|ref=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html|title=Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|access-date=2018-07-07}}</ref><br />
|familycolor=Austro-Asiatic<br />
|fam2=[[Munda languages|Munda]]<br />
|fam3=North<br />
|fam4=Kherwarian<br />
|fam5=Mundaric<br />
| script = [[Devanagari script]]<br />
|lc1=ksz|ld1=Kodaku<br />
|lc2=kfp|ld2=Korwa<br />
|glotto=koda1256<br />
|glottorefname=Kodaku–Korwa<br />
}}<br />
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'''Korwa''', or '''Kodaku'''/'''Koraku''' (Korku), is a [[Munda language]] of India spoken in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.<br />
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Existing Korwa linguistic documentation includes Bahl (1962), which is based on the Korwa dialect of Dumertoli village, Bagicha Block, Tehsil Jashpurnagar, [[Raigarh District]], [[Chhattisgarh]].<br />
==Varieties==<br />
Korwa is a [[dialect continuum]]. The two principal varieties are '''Korwa''' (Korba) and '''Koraku''' (Kodaku), spoken by the [[Korwa people|Korwa]] and [[Kodaku people|Kodaku]] respectively. Out of the Korwa, only the Hill Korwa still speak the language, the others having shifted to regional languages. The Kodaku in [[Jharkhand]] call their language "Korwa". Both speak [[Sadri language|Sadri]], [[Kurukh language|Kurukh]], or [[Chhattisgarhi language|Chhattisgarhi]] as a second language, or in the case of Sadri sometimes as their first language.<br />
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Gregory Anderson (2008:195) lists the following locations for Korowa and Koraku.<br />
*'''Korowa''' (Korwa) is spoken in northeastern [[Chhattisgarh]] state, including southern [[Surguja district]], [[Jashpur district]], parts of [[Raigarh district]], and other neighboring areas. Korwa remains poorly documented, and the only documentation is in unpublished manuscripts.<br />
*'''Koraku''' is spoken in southern [[Mirzapur district]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]] and northern [[Surguja district]] of [[Chhattisgarh]]. It remains undocumented except for some kinship terms given in Singh & Danda (1986).<br />
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According to Singh & Danda (1986:1), "a Kodaku is very clear about the differences between himself and the Korwa and a clear-cut distinction is made when a Korwa asks a Kodaku about his tribe, and vice versa."<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Anderson, Gregory D.S (ed). 2008. ''The Munda languages''. Routledge Language Family Series 3.New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|0-415-32890-X}}.<br />
*Bahl, Kali Charan. 1962. ''Korwa Lexicon''. m.s., 148pp.<br />
*Singh, Bageshwar and Ajit K. Danda. 1986. ''The Kodaku of Surguja''. Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India.<br />
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