Languages that start with O

List of Languages That Start With O

1

Occitan

A Romance language of southern France, Monaco, parts of Italy and Spain — once the prestige tongue of medieval troubadour poetry, today minority and endangered.

2

Odia

An Indo-Aryan language and the official tongue of the Indian state of Odisha — one of India's six classical languages, with a literary tradition dating to the 13th century.

3

Ojibwe

A Central Algonquian language spoken across the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada — one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in North America.

4

Old Church Slavonic

The first literary Slavic language — developed in the 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius for the Christianisation of the Slavs, still used liturgically by Orthodox churches.

5

Old English

The West Germanic language spoken in early medieval England — the language of *Beowulf*, unrecognisable to modern English speakers without study.

6

Old Norse

The North Germanic language of the Viking Age — ancestor of Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish — and the language of the Eddas and sagas.

7

Oromo

A Cushitic language and the most widely spoken first language in Ethiopia — written in a Latin alphabet known as Qubee since the 1990s.

8

Ossetian

An Eastern Iranian language and the official language of North Ossetia (Russia) and South Ossetia — about 540,000 speakers, descended from the Alans and Scythians.