Oriya language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Oriya |
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| Odia ଓଡ଼ିଆ oṛiā |
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| Native to | India | |||
| Region | Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam, Bihar. Widely spoken in Surat, Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai. Prominent speakers in Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai | |||
| Ethnicity | Oriyas | |||
| Native speakers | 33 million (2007) | |||
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Dravidian
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| Writing system | Oriya alphabet (Brahmic) Oriya Braille |
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| Official language in | Odisha, Jharkhand | |||
| Linguasphere | 59-AAF-x | |||
The distribution of Oriya, in India
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Oriya (ଓଡ଼ିଆ oṛiā) is an Indian Dravidian language, mainly spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. Some parts of Odisha, mainly the Ganjam and Gajapati districts, speak the Telugu language. The language is also an official language of India. There are about 31 million people who speak Oriya.
Images for kids
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Trilingual Signboard at Bhubaneswar Airport having text in Odia, Hindi and English
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The proto-languages of eastern Magadhan; the split and descent of Proto-Odra (Odra Prakrit), the ancestor of the modern Odia language, from Proto-Magadhan (Magadhi Prakrit)
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Urajam inscription in Old Odia, royal charter of Eastern Ganga dynasty (1051 CE)
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A detailed chart depicting evolution of the Odia script as displayed in a museum at Ratnagiri, Odisha
See also
In Spanish: Idioma oriya para niños
