Odia

Also known as Oriya alphabet, Oriya script, Odia alphabet, Odia script

writing system used to write Odia, Sambalpuri and Kuvi languages

Key facts

Script type: Abugida
Period: c. 14th century – present
Direction: Left-to-right
Languages: Odia , Sanskrit , Kui , Kuvi , Manda , Pengo , Gondi , Kisan Kurux , Duruwa , Sora , Santali , Kupia , Chhattisgarhi , Halbi
Parent systems: Egyptian Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brahmi script Gupta script Siddhaṃ script Gaudi script Odia script
Sister systems: Bengali–Assamese , Tirhuta , Nāgarī , Nepalese
Iso 15924: Orya (327) , Oriya (Odia)
Unicode alias: Oriya
Unicode range: U+0B00–U+0B7F

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Image: Oriya Lipi.svg

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Unicode range: U+0B00-0B7F
Commons category: Odia script
name: Oriya
inception: 1400-00-00
native label: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲିପି

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The Odia script (Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷର, romanized: Oṛiā akṣara, also Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲିପି, romanized: Oṛiā lipi) is a Brahmic script, mainly 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. The script has developed over more than 1000 years from a variant of Siddhaṃ script which was used in Eastern India, where the characteristic top line transformed into a distinct round umbrella shape due to the influence of palm leaf manuscripts and also being influenced by the neighbouring scripts from the Western and Southern regions.

Odia is a syllabic alphabet or an abugida wherein all consonants have an inherent vowel embedded within. Diacritics (which can appear above, below, before, or after the consonant they belong to) are used to change the form of the inherent vowel. When vowels appear at the beginning of a syllable, they are written as independent letters. Also, when certain consonants occur together, special conjunct symbols combine the essential parts of each consonant symbol.