1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Bengali and Assamese
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
India
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
India
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
520,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
33.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
33.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Odia
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating