Main Bhi Bharat- Tribes of Odisha| Koya Tribes 

In this episode, Main Bhi Bharat team travels to Malkangiri district of Odisha state to meet the people of Koya tribe. The Koyas are a branch of the Gondi-speaking people. Their mother tongue comes under the Dravidian group of languages. This dialect also differs among the two groups of Koya - the north and the south.
There has been some incorporation of Telugu, Hindi and Odia words into the language of the southern and northern Koyas respectively. It is evident that the Koya of the two regions of the district is more or less similar linguistically, the slight differences being seen due to the contact with Odia or Telugu speakers.
The southerners have been much influenced in dress, ornaments, and hairstyle by the Telugus, while the northerners have retained their primitiveness to a great extent
Anchor - Shyam Sunder
Producer: Mamta Siddhartha