It is spoken in the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Mayurbhanj (commonly called Mayurbhanjia) and Kendujhar (commonly called Kendujharia).
[3] While the dialects spoken in these districts vary with regional influences and influences from different local community and tribal language groups, the Baleswari Odia from the northern coastal Balasore region has a distinct accent with some similarity with the nearby Medinipuri dialect of Odia and Bengali.
The dialect in Bhadrak district have more similarity with the standard Odia.
Baleswari substitutes "କିସ" (kisa) for a frequently used word "କଣ" (kaṇa) meaning "what" and "କେନେ" (kene) for "କାହିଁକି" (kāhĩki) meaning why.
The following is a list of major words in Baleswari:[4] Grammatical differences Vowel Harmony- o to u phoneme shift- Nouns, this phonetic feature is also seen in Sambalpuri Vowel Harmony- o to u phoneme shift- Verbs Baleswari Odia words, verbs and expressions