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ORIYA (properly Oriyd)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 278 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORIYA (properly Oriyd) , the See also:Aryan See also:language of Odra or See also:Orissa in See also:India. It is the See also:vernacular not only of that See also:province but also of the adjoining districts and native states of See also:Madras and of the Central Provinces. In Igor it was spoken by 9,687,429 See also:people. It is closely related to See also:Bengali and See also:Assamese, and with them and with See also:Bihari it forms the Eastern See also:Group of the Indo-Aryan vernaculars. See BENGALI.

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