Odia language

Odia
Oriya
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା oḍiā
Pronunciation	[ˈoɖia]
Region	Odisha, India
Ethnicity	Odias
Native speakers	36.6 million (2001) L1: 33 million L2: 3.3 million L3: 0.32 million
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Odia languages Odia
Writing system	Odia alphabet Odia Braille
Official status
Official language in	India, Odisha,Jharkhand
Language codes
ISO 639-1	or
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3	– inclusive code Individual codes: ory – Odia spv – Sambalpuri ort – Adivasi Odia (Kotia) dso – Desiya (duplicate of [ort])
Glottolog	macr1269  (partial match)
Linguasphere	59-AAF-x

Odia /əˈdiːə/ or Oriya /ɒˈriːə/, both renderings of Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା  oḍiā , is a language spoken by 3.2% of India's population. It is an Indo-Aryan language that is spoken mostly in eastern India, with around 40 million native speakers as of the year 2016 from the state of Odisha, adjoining regions of its neighboring states and by the largely migrated Odia population across India.

It is the predominant language of the Indian state of Odisha, where native speakers make up 80% of the population, and also is spoken in parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. Odia is one of the many official languages of India; it is the official language of Odisha and the second official language of Jharkhand. The language is also spoken by a sizable population of at least 10 million people in Chhattisgarh. Odia is the sixth Indian language to be designated a Classical Language in India on the basis of having a long literary history and not having borrowed extensively from other languages.