Countries
India
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
-
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Bengali and Assamese
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4236
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
118
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3128
9
60
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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 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
kedụ
Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
dalụ
How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
ଦୟାକରି
Biko
Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Ndo
Bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
Kachifo
I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Baleswari
Enuani
Where They Speak
India
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ganjami
Ngwa
Where They Speak
India
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kosli
Not present
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
520,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
820
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
33.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
igbo
Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
Ibo
French Name
oriya
igbo
German Name
Oriya-Sprache
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Odias
Igbo people
Origin
3 BC
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Kwa
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Odia
Standard Igbo
Language Position
3257
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
or
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ori
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
ori
ibo
ISO 639 3
ori
ibo
ISO 639 6
ori
ibo
Glottocode
macr1269
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative