Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
India
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
India
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Bengali and Assamese
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Oriya-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Baleswari
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Ganjami
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Kosli
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
33.00 million
  
34
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
Not Available
  
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
  
French Name
chinois
  
oriya
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Oriya-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈoɽia]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Odias
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
3 BC
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Standard Odia
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
or
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
ori
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
ori
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
ori
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
macr1269
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available
  
Chinese and Oriya Speaking population
Chinese and Oriya speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Oriya languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Oriya Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Oriya language is 0.50 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chinese and Oriya on Chinese vs Oriya where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Chinese and Oriya Language Codes
Chinese and Oriya language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Oriya Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.