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Oriya (ôrē`yə), language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian Indo-Iranian, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by more than a billion people, chiefly in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka (see The Indo-European Family of Languages , table). ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| For example, literacy in the Kashmir valley is imparted through Urdu, in Arunachal Pradesh through Hindi, and among tribal communities through the respective regional languages--Telugu, Oriya, Bengali, Marathi, Hindi and so forth. The technical difficulties imposed by the nature of Indian scripts, and the small market for such machines, meant that it was the mid-1970s before a Linotype hot-metal machine was made for a "small" language like Oriya (23 million speakers in 1981). Nine additional scripts are now supported, including the Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Gurmukhi and Sinhala writing systems. |
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