Countries
India
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
Nepal
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
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Bengali and Assamese
Hindi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4248
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1112
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3136
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
ଦୟାକରି
कृपया
Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Baleswari
Doteli
Where They Speak
India
Nepal
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ganjami
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
India
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kosli
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
India
Nepal
How Many People Speak
520,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
33.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
oriya
népalais
German Name
Oriya-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Odias
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
3 BC
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Odia
Nepali
Language Position
3259
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
or
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ori
nep
ISO 639 2/B
ori
nep
ISO 639 3
ori
npi
ISO 639 6
ori
nep
Glottocode
macr1269
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative