Ganjami Odia

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Ganjami Odia is a regional variety of the Odia language spoken primarily in the Ganjam region of Odisha, India, characterized by distinct phonetic and lexical features.

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Ganjami Odia canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Indo-Aryan lect
dialect
regional variety of Odia
belongsTo Odia dialect continuum
closelyRelatedTo Standard Odia
other southern Odia dialects
country India
geographicDistribution Ganjam district of Odisha
parts of Gajapati district
parts of Kandhamal district
hasAlternativeName Ganjami
Ganjami Boli
hasCulturalAssociation Berhampur regional culture
Ganjam cultural identity
hasDistinctAccent yes
hasGrammaticalFeature distinct pronoun usage compared to Standard Odia
distinct verb forms compared to Standard Odia
hasLexicalFeature loanwords from Telugu
loanwords from neighboring Dravidian languages
region-specific vocabulary
hasLexicalVariationFrom Standard Odia
hasPhoneticFeature distinct consonant realization compared to Standard Odia
distinct vowel quality compared to Standard Odia
hasPhonologicalVariationFrom Standard Odia
hasWritingSystem Odia script
isVarietyOf Odia
surface form: Odia language
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
linguisticTypology SOV word order
mutualIntelligibilityWith Standard Odia
partOf Odia
surface form: Odia macrolanguage
primaryLanguageOf many residents of Ganjam district
region Ganjam region
coastal southern Odisha
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenIn Berhampur
surface form: Berhampur city

Ganjam district
Orissa
surface form: Odisha

Odisha (parts)
surface form: southern Odisha
subclassOf Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
Odia language
usedBy people of Ganjam region
usedIn informal communication
local folk songs
local theatre
usesAlphabet Odia script
surface form: Odia alphabet

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Odia hasDialect Ganjami Odia