Indo-European · ISO 639-3 spv
Sambalpuri Language ସମ୍ବଲପୁରୀ
Sambalpuri is an Indo-European language spoken by about 2.6 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Odia script.
Where Sambalpuri is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Sambalpuri
About the Sambalpuri language
Sambalpuri (ସମ୍ବଲପୁରୀ) is spoken by about 2.6 million people, which makes it the 268th most spoken language in the world — just behind Tagwana Senoufo (2.7 million) and ahead of Pu-Xian Chinese (2.6 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Macro-Oriya group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Sambalpuri spoken?
Sambalpuri is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (520,000).
Sambalpuri is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Sambalpuri 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 Odia, Bengali, Assamese, Rangpuri, Sylheti, Chittagonian and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 spv.
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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.