Koya language

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Koya
Spoken in: India
Total speakers: 330,000 (1997)
Language family: Dravidian
 South Central
  Koya
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: kff

Koya (also Koi, Koi Gondi, Kavor, Koa, Koitar, Koyato, Kaya, Koyi, Raj Koya) is a South Central Dravidian language of the Kui-Gondi subgroup. It is variously written in the Oriya, Telugu, Devanagari or Roman script. With 270,994 registered native speakers, it figures at rank 37 in the 1991 Indian census.