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name: locale-or-in
description: Use when working with the Odia (India) locale (`or-IN`) — its endonym ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ଭାରତ), Oriya script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.
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# Locale: Odia (India) (or-IN)

Reference data for the **Odia (India)** locale — endonym **ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ଭାରତ)**, written in the Oriya script, left-to-right (LTR).

## Identifiers

- **BCP 47 tag:** `or-IN`
- **ISO 639-1:** `or`
- **ISO 639-3:** `ori`
- **Script:** Orya (Oriya)
- **Region:** IN (India)
- **Text direction:** ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

## Speakers (approximate)

- **L1 (native):** 34,000,000
- **L2 (additional):** 4,000,000
- **L1+L2 (total):** 38,000,000

## Base locale

This is a regional variant of [[locale-or-001]] (Odia), the base/macro locale for this language.

## Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: **one**, **other** (2 forms).

- **one** — `n = 1` (e.g. 1)
- **other** — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See [[unicode-messageformat]] for writing plural messages using these categories.

## Translating into this locale

Apply [[locale-or-001]] with the conventions of India (Odisha).

- **Formats:** rupee (₹), Indian grouping, dates DD/MM/YYYY; the Odia calendar is used for festivals such as Rath Yatra.
- **Context:** Odia is the official language of Odisha; place names (Bhubaneswar, Cuttack) have standard Odia forms.

## Common pitfalls

- Using Bengali spellings for Odia place names.
- Using Hindi vocabulary where an Odia term exists.
- The general pitfalls in [[locale-or-001]] also apply.

## Learn more

- [[locale]] for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
- [[unicode-messageformat]] for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
- Unicode CLDR locale data for number grouping, calendars, and currency (https://cldr.unicode.org)