Indo-European · ISO 639-3 ory
Odia Language
Odia is an Indo-European language spoken by about 35 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Odia script.
Where Odia is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Odia
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Indo-Aryan Eastern zone
- Oriya-Gauda-Kamrupa
- Macro-Oriya
- Odia
Writing system
Odia script
Related languages
About the Odia language
Odia is spoken by about 35 million people, which makes it the 50th most spoken language in the world — just behind Burmese (36 million) and ahead of Maithili (34 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Macro-Oriya group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Odia spoken?
Odia is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (35 million).
Odia is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Odia is written in the Odia script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Sambalpuri, Bengali, Assamese, Rangpuri, Sylheti, Chittagonian and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 ory.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.