[1] It is likely a variety of a Northern Great Andamanese language, as it is very similar to Aka-Jeru, without any unique features.
[3] By the time of the establishment of the first permanent colonial settlement at Port Blair (1858), the estimates size of the Kora tribe was about 500 individuals, out of perhaps 3500 Great Andamanese.
[4] Like other Andamanese peoples, the Kora were decimated during colonial and post-colonial times, by diseases, alcohol, opium and loss of territory.
[4] In 1949, any remaining Kora were relocated, with all other surviving Great Andamanese, to a reservation on Bluff island.
[6] Although descendants of the Kora were still living in the Great Andamanese reservation of Strait Island as of 2006, they identified themselves as members of other tribes, mainly Jeru.