Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Bengali and Assamese
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4253
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1110
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3143
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Molo
Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Unjani
Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Molo
Please
ଦୟାକରି
Ndicela
Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Baleswari
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
India
South Africa
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ganjami
Thembu
Where They Speak
India
South Africa
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kosli
Hlubi
Where They Speak
India
South Africa
How Many People Speak
520,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
89
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
33.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
oriya
xhosa
German Name
Oriya-Sprache
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Odias
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
3 BC
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Odia
isiXhosa
Language Position
3221
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
or
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ori
xho
ISO 639 2/B
ori
xho
ISO 639 3
ori
xho
ISO 639 6
ori
xho
Glottocode
macr1269
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-