About Oriya Language | Oriya | Alphabets in Oriya

Countries

India

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

India

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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.

Similar To

Bengali and Assamese

Derived From

Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 22 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 8 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 21 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)

Thank You

ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)

How Are You?

କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)

Good Night

ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)

Good Evening

ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)

Good Afternoon

ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)

Good Morning

ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)

Please

ଦୟାକରି

Sorry

ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)

Bye

ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)

I Love You

ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)

Excuse Me

କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Baleswari

Where They Speak

India

How Many People Speak

33,800,000.00

Rank: 22 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Ganjami

Where They Speak

India

How Many People Speak

33,800,000.00

Rank: 20 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Kosli

Where They Speak

India

How Many People Speak

520,000.00

Rank: 58 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 8 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

33.00 million

Rank: 34 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.50 %

Rank: 31 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

33.00 million

Rank: 28 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

35.00 million

Rank: 24 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)

Alternative Names

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

French Name

oriya

German Name

Oriya-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈoɽia]

Ethnicity

Odias

History

Origin

3 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Odia

Language Position

Rank: 30 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Indian Signing System

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ori

ISO 639 2/B

ori

ISO 639 3

ori

ISO 639 6

ori

Glottocode

macr1269

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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.