Odia

British  

/ əˈdiːə /

noun

1. a member of a people of India living chiefly in Odisha (formerly Orissa) and neighbouring states

2. the state language of Odisha, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family

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Example Sentences

The co-first authors of the study are Dylan Kotliar, an internal medicine resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an MD/PhD student in Sabeti's lab while the project was ongoing; Siddharth Raju, a graduate student in Sabeti's lab; Shervin Tabrizi, a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad; and Ikponmwosa Odia, a researcher at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital in Nigeria.

From Science Daily

Growing up in Ann Arbor, there was an expectation that Odia Kaba would attend the University of Michigan.

From Seattle Times

And in accordance with the last wishes of my elderly Sora friend, Monosi, a Baptist modernizer who died in 2017, I am compiling a dictionary of the Sora language to present to the younger Sora, many of whom speak only Odia, the region’s dominant language.

From Scientific American

The church adapted the Roman alphabet to introduce literacy in the Sora language, and in the 1980s a flood of government schools, roads, employment and development cash introduced speaking and writing in Odia, too.

From Scientific American

The shamans’ spirit husbands could speak Odia as they “wrote down” the names of the ancestors of the shamans’ clients.

From Scientific American