Countries
India
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Bengali and Assamese
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4244
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1112
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3132
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
sannu
Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
gode ku
How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
yaya dai
Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
barka da rana
Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
mai kyau safe
Please
ଦୟାକରି
Don Allah
Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
yi hakuri
Bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
sai anjima
I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Baleswari
Gaananci
Where They Speak
India
Ghana
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ganjami
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
India
Niger
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kosli
Daragaram
Where They Speak
India
Niger
How Many People Speak
520,000.0050.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
820
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
33.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %0.52 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million35.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
oriya
haoussa
German Name
Oriya-Sprache
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Odias
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
3 BC
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Chadic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Odia
Hausa
Language Position
3234
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
or
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ori
hau
ISO 639 2/B
ori
hau
ISO 639 3
ori
hau
ISO 639 6
ori
hau
Glottocode
macr1269
haus1257
Linguasphere
No data available
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional