Countries
India
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
-
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Bengali and Assamese
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4228
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
118
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3120
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
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
您好
Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
谢谢
How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
你好吗?
Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
晚安
Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
下午好
Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
早上好
Please
ଦୟାକରି
请
Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
遗憾
Bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
再见
I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
我爱你
Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Baleswari
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
India
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ganjami
Xiguan
Where They Speak
India
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kosli
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
India
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
520,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
33.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
oriya
cantonais
German Name
Oriya-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Odias
Han Chinese
Origin
3 BC
17th century
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 Cantonese
Language Position
321
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
or
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ori
yue
ISO 639 2/B
ori
yue
ISO 639 3
ori
No data available
ISO 639 6
ori
yue
Glottocode
macr1269
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-