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The Odia language uses the Odia script (also known as the Kalinga script). It is a Brahmic script used to write primarily the Odia language and others like Sanskrit and several minor regional languages. The script has developed over nearly 1000 years, with the earliest trace of the script being dated to 1051 AD.
The study breaks down the pre-existing idea that Odia is a 500-year-old language, with a 2,500-year history of the language, a 2,000-year-old literature, and a script that was created from primitive caves below 20,000 years old. The research paper proves that the origin of the script, especially in all the scripts of India, is derived from Odisha.
The Odia script (Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷର, romanized: Oḍiā akṣara, also Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲିପି, romanized: Oḍiā lipi) is a Brahmic script used to write the Odia language. To a lesser extent, it is also used to write Sanskrit and other regional languages. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic.
Karani or Chhata was a handwritten cursive writing system historically used to write the Odia language [2] [3] [4] primarily for court, land, temple and accounting records, and other administrative purposes. [5] Karani was quite different from [6] the printed form, the Odia script, which replaced it. [5]
Odia literature is literature written in the Odia language, mostly from the Indian state of Odisha. The modern Odia language is mostly formed from Tadbhava words with significant Sanskrit (Tatsama) influences, along with loanwords from Desaja, English , Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu), Persian , and Arabic .
Amos Sutton (1802 in Sevenoaks in Kent – 17 August 1854 in Cuttack, Odisha) was an English General Baptist missionary to Odisha, India, and hymn writer. [1] He published the first English grammar of the Odia language (1831), [2] a History (1839), and Geography (1840), then the first dictionary of Odia (1841–43), [3] as well as a translation of the Bible (1842–45).
Ganjami Odia (ଗଞ୍ଜାମୀ ଓଡ଼ିଆ) or Southern Odia or commonly known as Berhampuria is a variety of the Odia language spoken in Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal districts of Odisha and in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh.
Odia, also spelled Oriya or Odiya, may refer to: Odia people in Odisha, India; Odia language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family; Odia alphabet, a writing system used for the Odia language Oriya (Unicode block), a block of Odia characters in Unicode