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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

India

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

India

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.7 Regulated By

Not Available

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
  • Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.

1.9 Similar To

Bengali and Assamese

1.10 Derived From

Sanskrit Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

42
Rank: 22 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

11
Rank: 8 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

31
Rank: 21 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)

3.2 Thank You

ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)

3.3 How Are You?

କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)

3.4 Good Night

ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)

3.5 Good Evening

ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)

3.6 Good Afternoon

ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)

3.7 Good Morning

ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)

3.8 Please

Not Available

3.9 Sorry

ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)

3.10 Bye

ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)

3.11 I Love You

ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)

3.12 Excuse Me

କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Baleswari

4.1.1 Where They Speak

India

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Ganjami

4.2.1 Where They Speak

India

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Kosli

4.3.1 Where They Speak

India

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

520,000.00
Rank: 21 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

8
Rank: 8 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

33.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.50 %
Rank: 29 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

33.00 million
Rank: 28 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia

5.3.4 French Name

oriya

5.3.5 German Name

Oriya-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

[ˈoɽia]

5.5 Ethnicity

Odias

6 History

6.1 Origin

3 BC

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

6.2.2 Branch

Indic

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Standard Odia

6.3.3 Language Position

32
Rank: 26 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Indian Signing System

6.4 Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

or

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

ori

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

ori

7.3 ISO 639 3

ori

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

macr1269

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Oriya

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Oriya Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Oriya Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Oriya. Oriya phonology gives Oriya vowels and Oriya consonants. There are 11 vowels and 31 consonants in Oriya language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Oriya is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Oriya language is given in detail in this section.

All Oriya countries

Want to explore all Oriya countries? About Oriya language serves you with all Oriya Speaking Countries. Countries that use Oriya as official language are called as Oriya countries.

  • Countries that use Oriya as their National Language are: India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Oriya as second language are: Oriya is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Oriya greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Oriya Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Oriya language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Oriya language.Learn Oriya greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
  • Thank you: ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
  • Good Morning: ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
  • Good Evening: ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
  • Good Afternoon: ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)

All Oriya Language Codes

Get to know all Oriya language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Oriya Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.