Countries
India
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
India
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
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.
  
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
Similar To
Bengali and Assamese
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Oriya-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
  
您好
  
Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
  
早上好
  
Please
Not Available
  
请
  
Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
  
遗憾
  
Bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
  
再见
  
I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Baleswari
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
India
  
outside mainland China
  
Dialect 2
Ganjami
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Hong Kong
  
Dialect 3
Kosli
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
33.00 million
  
34
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
52.00 million
  
21
Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
oriya
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Oriya-Sprache
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Odias
  
Not Available
  
Origin
3 BC
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Odia
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
or
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ori
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
ori
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
ori
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
macr1269
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Oriya and Cantonese Speaking population
Oriya and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Oriya and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Oriya and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Oriya language is 0.50 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Oriya and Cantonese on Oriya vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Oriya and Cantonese Language Codes
Oriya and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Oriya and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.