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Sundergarh Sundergarh is a town in Sundergarh district of the Indian state of Odisha. As of 2011 census, the municipality had a population of 45,036. Sundargarh is recognized as an industrial district in Odisha. Steel, fertilizer, cement, ferrovanadium, ...

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Odias The Odia (), formerly spelled Oriya, is an Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to the Indian state of Odisha who speak Odia language. They constitute a majority in the eastern coastal state, with significant minority populations in neighboring An ...

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Odia Odia, also spelled Oriya or Odiya, may refer to: * Odia people in Odisha, India * Odia language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family * Odia alphabet, a writing system used for the Odia languag ...

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, glotto=nort2659 , glottoname=Northwestern Oriya , glottorefname=Northwestern Oriya Sundargadi Odia () or Northwestern Odia is a dialect of the Odia language spoken in the

district and parts of adjoining districts of Odisha. It is also spoken in the nearby districts of Jashpur of Chhattisgarh and Simdega of Jharkhand.

Characteristics

The Sundargadi variety is influenced by Sambalpuri to the south along with influences from the

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Chhattisgarhi Chhattisgarhi ( / ) is an Indo-Aryan language, spoken by approximately 16 million people from Chhattisgarh & other states. It is mostly spoken in the Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh & Maharashtra. It is closely related ...

languages due to the geographical location of the Northwestern region of Odisha bordering the adjoining linguistic regions of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. The features of the variety are as follows(Sundargadi following Standard Odia): *Word Final Vowel Deletion (Schwa deletion) Eg.- In this Genitive case, ଲୋକର (lokara) - ଲୋକର୍ (lokar) *Some phonetic shifts- 'o' to 'a', 'l' to 'n', medial 'ḍa' to 'ṛa' Eg.- to me- ମୋତେ (mote) - ମତେ (mate), he had got- ପାଇଲେ (pāile) - ପାଇନେ (pāine), did- କଲି (kali) - କନିଁ (kanĩ), great- ବଡ (ḍa) - ବଡ଼ (baṛa) *case variations Dative- 'ki' instead of 'ku', what- କାହିଁକି (kāhĩki) Locative- 'ra' instead of 're', in answer- ଜବାବର (jabābra), in the forest- ବଣର (baṇara) Genitive (Pronoun)- your- ତୋର (tora) - ତୋହୋର୍ (tohor)

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