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{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Kupia<br />
|altname=Valmiki, Balmiki<br />
|states=[[India]]<br />
|region=[[Odisha]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
|ethnicity=79,000 (2007)<ref name=e18/><br />
|speakers=6,600<br />
|date=2007<br />
|ref=e18<br />
|familycolor=Indo-European<br />
|fam2=[[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]<br />
|fam3=[[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]<br />
|fam4=[[Eastern Indo-Aryan languages|Eastern]]<br />
|fam5=[[Odia language|Odia]]<br />
|script=[[Odia script|Odia]], [[Telugu script|Telugu]]<br />
|iso3=key<br />
|glotto=kupi1238<br />
|glottorefname=Kupia<br />
}}<br />
'''Kupia''', or '''Balmiki''', is an [[Indo-Aryan language]] related to [[Odia language|Odia]] and spoken by Valmiki people in the Indian state of [[Odisha]] and [[Andhra Pradesh]]. The Valmiki are a tribal group, concentrated in the districts of [[Koraput district|Koraput]] of Odisha and [[Visakhapatnam district|Visakhapatnam]] of Andhra Pradesh.<ref name="balmiki" >{{citation |title=An Ethnolinguistic Repositioning of the Balmiki Language of Odisha: A Bibliographic Appraisal |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346966868_An_Ethnolinguistic_Repositioning_of_the_Balmiki_Language_of_Odisha_A_Bibliographic_Appraisal |last1=Pattanayak |first1=Subrat Kalayan |last2=Dash |first2=Biswanandan |publisher=Centurion University of Technology and Management |date=December 2020 }}</ref><br />
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== Script ==<br />
Kupia language is usually written in [[Odia script|Odia]] or [[Telugu script|Telugu]] script depending on the region where the community lives.<ref name="balmiki" /> A new Kupia alphabet was also created by [[Sathupati Prasanna Sree]].{{cn|date=April 2026}}<br />
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