Koda language

Kim et al. (2010) considers Koda and Kol to be Mundari cluster languages. Koda-speaking villages include Kundang and Krishnupur in Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh, while Kol villages include Babudaing village.

Koda verbs are inflected for tense-aspect-mood and person, number, finite/infinite, subject/object, possessor, animacy and transitivity. In recent times Koda is code-mixing with Bangla: including vocabulary replacement and greater adoption of Bengali syntax. These processes are seen more in younger speakers.

Shamim (2021) presents a description of the phonology and morphology of Koda. It also presents a study of Koda in the context of language contact.

Phonology

Consonants

• The non-labial aspirated consonants () are found primarily in Bengali loanwords.

Vowels

• Vowel length and nasalization are not contrastive. Nasal vowels in Bengali loanwords lose their nasality.
• Non-open vowels become semivowels between vowels.
• and raise to and when the next syllable contains a close vowel.