Odia in India

Speakers

37,521,324

Type

Location

Odia in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Odia in India

Size

37,521,324

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
No
Administrative units of the country
Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
The resources for Odia books available here: https://odiabibhaba.in/en/resources/

https://archive.org/details/odia-short-stories-1983

https://archive.org/details/my-cow-odia-binay

https://archive.org/details/SriRamakrishnaJivaniOdia

https://archive.org/search?query=odia&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Odia

https://odisha.gov.in/or

https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?query=odia+&go=

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Movies, short films, language teaching-learning materials, dances, cultural programs, etc are available.

https://archive.org/details/nani-ma-ghaita-maipa-story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UClhEnrRdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr7FISukGWM

https://www.youtube.com/@odiaculture1/videos

https://odisha.gov.in/or

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Recordings, songs, stories, lectures, talks, etc are available.

https://onlineradiofm.in/language/odia
https://liveradios.in/language/odia
https://radiosindia.com/odiaradio.html
https://odisha.gov.in/or

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
The works on Odia is listed in given link:
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/oriy1255

https://odisha.gov.in/or

https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?query=odia+&go=

https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Odia

http://library.ciil.org:8080/search/query?term_1=odia&theme=ciil

https://isbnnew.inflibnet.ac.in/Recently_Published_Books.aspx

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use
Comments
Odia script is used in all literary works, textbooks, etc.

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Comments
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=odia

Size / Number of users

Number of users

37521324
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

100 % use the language

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

More than 50% of users with literacy in the language
Source

Census of India

Year
2011

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=odia

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Increasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Increasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Increasing

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Language is used for

  • Census data
  • Census surveys
  • Election processes
  • Topographical signs
Comments
State

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

  • Language not used
  • Translations
  • Healthcare information
  • Nursing care (incl. elderly)
  • Doctor-patient communication
  • Generally used

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion