ABSTRACT
For this language (Ethnologue code [pcj]) a wide variety of names is in use: Gorum, Parengi/Parenga and Porja (Basa)/Poroja (Basa). Its speakers mostly refer to the language as Porja Basa (Por[o]ja < Oriya prɔja ‘people’; Basa < Oriya bhasa ‘language’) a name of obvious Indo-Aryan etymology.
