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Didayi
 
Indigenous Group Didayi (Also known as: Gataq, Getaq, Geta', Gta', Gta Asa, Didei, Dire, Gata', Didayee)
Location India, Orissa, Koraput, and Malkangiri districts, Kudumulgumma and Chitrakonda blocks, south of the Bondo Hills; Khairput block.
Estimated Population 5,727 (2002, Survey by the Council of Analytical Tribal Studies (COATS), Koraput)
Environment Plain / Highland
Lifestyle Sedentary
Subsistence Agriculture / Gatherer / Hunter / Fishing
Level of Assimilation Traditional
Language Family Gata'
Classification:
Austro-Asiatic, Munda, South Munda, Koraput Munda, Gutob-Remo-Geta', Geta'
Alternate names: Gataq, Getaq, Geta', Gta', Gta Asa, Didei, Didayi, Dire
Dialects: Plains Geta', Hill Geta'
Website URLs Ethnologue – Gata', a language of India
Case Study of the Didayi – Planning Commission of India
Orissa Tourism - Tribes of Orissa
India – Past, Present and Future, Article by Zoltan Hazy
NGOs Didayi Development Agency
Agragamee
Orissa Tribal Development Project
Vasundhara

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