The Odia language is spoken in a place translated as "Thirty-Six Forts."
Chhattisgarh ( , literally ` Thirty-Six Forts ' ) is one of the 29 states of India , located in the centre-east of the country . Odia language . It is an Indo-Aryan language that is spoken mostly in eastern India , with around 40 million native speakers , as of the year 2016 , from the state of Odisha , from adjoining regions of its neighboring states and by the largely migrated Odia population across India . The language is also spoken by a sizeable population of at least 10 million people in Chhattisgarh .