Claim: The Odia language is used to communicate in a locale in the center-east of India.
Evidence: The language is also spoken by a sizeable population of at least 10 million people in Chhattisgarh.
Chhattisgarh -LRB- , literally ` Thirty-Six Forts ' -RRB- is one of the 29 states of India , located in the centre-east of the country.