Sora Language History Estblished on 1936

This sora script and language Estblished on 1936 

The Sora Sompeng script is used for writing the Sora language spoken by about 310,000 people in India, predominantly in the eastern state of Orissa. Sora is in the Munda language family. It is also sometimes called Sora or Savara, but is not to be confused with the Savara language in the Dravidian family. According to the Ethnologue, Sora Munda  is given the language code srb, and Savara Dravidian  is given the language code savara.

There are three scripts which have been created specifically for writing Munda languages; Sora Sompeng for the Sora language, Ol’ Chiki for the Santali language, and Varang Kshiti for the Ho language. However, these three scripts are not visually similar and are not derived from a common source, all having been created by influential community leaders to replace non-native scripts.

The Sora language has also been written in an IPA-based script developed by Christian missionaries, and in the Telugu and Oriya scripts. In the 1930 s there was conflict within the community as to which of these was best-suited to the language. To resolve the conflict,

 Mangei Gomango, the son-in-law of an influential Sora leader, introduced the Sora Sompeng script in 1936. Sora tradition states that the script itself is a divine incarnation of the deity called Akshara Brahma, but other scholars suggest that the shapes of the letters are loosely based on Latin/IPA letters, and the additional loops are based on Telugu writing.