Countries
India
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Bengali and Assamese
Kannada Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4251
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1116
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3135
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Kannada Script
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)
Namaskara
Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
yedde rathre
Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
yedde kaande
Please
ଦୟାକରି
Daya maltadu
Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
Barpe
I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Baleswari
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
India
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ganjami
Jain
Where They Speak
India
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kosli
Girijan
Where They Speak
India
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
520,000.002.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
33.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
oriya
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German Name
Oriya-Sprache
Tulu
Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Odias
Tuluva
Origin
3 BC
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Odia
Tulu
Language Position
3223
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
or
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ori
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
ori
tul
ISO 639 3
ori
tcy
ISO 639 6
ori
tcy
Glottocode
macr1269
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-