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Oriya language

Odia
Oriya
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା oḍiā
Odia bhasa.png
Pronunciation [ˈoɖia]
Region Odisha, India
Ethnicity Odias
Native speakers
36.6 million (2001)
L1: 33 million
L2: 3.3 million
L3: 0.32 million
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 (/əˈdə/) or Oriya (/ɒˈrə/), both renderings of (Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା) About this sound 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.


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