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Where is Oriya spoken?

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Srikant Kedia (srikantkedia) said : 		#1

Oriya is the predominant language of Orissa, India (now officially known as Odisha), where Oriya speakers comprise around 83.33% of the population according to census surveys.

In India Oriya is spoken in Orissa, Vishakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Pondicherry, Bangalore, Chennai, Goa, Mumbai, Raipur, Jamshedpur, Baroda, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Kolkata, Kharagpur, Guwahati.

Oriya language has spread to the other parts of the globe such as Burma, Malaysia, Fiji, Indonesia, Java, Sumatra, the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and UAE

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Данило Шеган (danilo) said : 		#3

We generally list only the countries that have a language as the official language. I've added India to the list, but I didn't add any of the others. If you have some data pointers, I'd be happy to update the language entry in Launchpad: https://translations.launchpad.net/+languages/or

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Данило Шеган (danilo) said : 		#4

Btw, thanks for the details :)

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