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