Countries
India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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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
-
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
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4226
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1124
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3123
9
60
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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
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
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
ଦୟାକରି
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
33,800,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ganjami
Wu
Where They Speak
India
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kosli
Yue
Where They Speak
India
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
520,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
810
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
33.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
oriya
chinois
German Name
Oriya-Sprache
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Odias
Han
Origin
3 BC
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Odia
Standard Chinese
Language Position
321
1
120
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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
ori
zho
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
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Analytic, Isolating