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Overwhelmingly, the Odia script was used to write the Odia language. However, it has been used as a regional writing-system for Sanskrit. Furthermore, Grierson [10] in his famed Linguistic Survey of India mentioned that the Odia script is sometimes used for Chhattisgarhi, an Eastern Hindi language, in the eastern border regions of Chhattisgarh.
Odia (/ ə ˈ d iː ə /; [1] [11] ଓଡ଼ିଆ, ISO: Oṛiā, pronounced ⓘ; [12] formerly rendered as Oriya) is a classical Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the official language in Odisha (formerly rendered as Orissa), [ 13 ] where native speakers make up 82% of the population, [ 14 ] and it is also spoken ...
The Jagamohana Ramayana (Odia: ଜଗମୋହନ ରାମାୟଣ) also known as the Dandi Ramayana popularly across Odisha is an epic poem composed by the 15th-century poet Balarama Dasa. This work is a retelling of the Ramayana, though not a direct translation. [1] [2]
Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary award awarded to an Odia language litterateur for outstanding contribution to Odia literature in various categories by the Odisha Sahitya Akademi, [1] [2] an institution established in 1957 in Odisha [3] for active promotion of Odia language and literature. [4] [5] [6]
Fakir Mohan Senapati (13 January 1843 – 14 June 1918), often referred to as Utkala Byasa Kabi (Odisha's Vyasa), was an Indian writer, poet, philosopher and social reformer.
The above manuscript leaf is in Odiya script found in the eastern state of India named Odisha. The manuscript was identified in early 19th-century and is now housed in Odisha government museum. The photo above is of a 2D artwork of a text that is over 600 years old, from a manuscript that was produced in or before the 19th-century CE.
Note: [1] [2] [3] Oriya is a Unicode block containing characters for the Odia , Khondi and Santali languages of the state of Odisha in India . In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B01..U+0B4D were a direct copy of the Odia characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard.
Kanhu Charan Mohanty was born on 11 August 1906 in Nagabali village of Cuttack, India, to an Odia family. [2] [3] He is an elder brother of Gopinath Mohanty (1914–91) who was also a Jnanpith Award-winning (1974) Odia novelist.