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Classical Odia
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 * Odia (name), including a list of people with the name See also * * * Odisha (other) * Orissa (other) Orissa is the former name of the state of Odisha in India. Orissa may also refer to: Places * Orissa Subah, a Mughal imperial province * Bihar and Orissa Province, a province of British India from 1912 to 1936 * Orissa Province, a province of Br ... {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odia People
The Odia (), formerly spelled Oriya, is an Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to the Indian state of Odisha who speak Odia language. They constitute a majority in the eastern coastal state, with significant minority populations in neighboring Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and West Bengal. Etymology The earliest Odias were called Odra or Kalinga, which later on became Utkal. The word Odia has mentions in epics like the ''Mahabharata''. The Odras are mentioned as one of the peoples that fought in the ''Mahabharata''. Pali literature calls them Oddakas. Ptolemy and Pliny the Elder also refer to the Oretas who inhabit India's eastern coast. The modern term Odia dates from the 15th century when it was used by the medieval Muslim chroniclers and adopted by the Gajapati kings of Odisha. History Ancient period The Odias are distinguished by their ethnocultural customs as well as the use of the Odia language. Odisha's relative isolation and the lack of any discernibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odia Language
Odia (, ISO: , ; formerly rendered Oriya ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the official language in Odisha (formerly rendered Orissa), where native speakers make up 82% of the population, and it is also spoken in parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Odia is one of the many official languages of India; it is the official language of Odisha and the second official language of Jharkhand. The language is also spoken by a sizeable population of 700,000 people in Chhattisgarh. Odia is the sixth Indian language to be designated a classical language, on the basis of having a long literary history and not having borrowed extensively from other languages. The earliest known inscription in Odia dates back to the 10th century CE. History Odia is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Aryan language family. It descends from Odra Prakrit, which evolved from Magadhi Prakrit, which was spoken in east I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odia Alphabet
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) Oriya is a Unicode block containing characters for the Oriya (Odia), Khondi, and Santali languages of the state of Odisha in India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-larg ..., a block of Odia characters in Unicode * Odia (name), including a list of people with the name See also * * {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriya (Unicode Block)
Oriya is a Unicode block containing characters for the Oriya (Odia), Khondi, and Santali languages of the state of Odisha in India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the .... In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B01..U+0B4D were a direct copy of the Oriya characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati (Unicode block), Gujarati, Tamil (Unicode block), Tamil, Telugu (Unicode block), Telugu, Kannada (Unicode block), Kannada, and Malayalam (Unicode block), Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings. Odia script combines symbols into hundreds of Odia script#Consonant ligatures, consonant ligatures. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of definin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odia (name)
Odia is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Churchill Odia (born 1985), Nigerian basketball player * Henry Odia (born 1990), Nigerian footballer * Odia Coates (1941–1991), American singer {{given name, type=both Surnames of African origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odisha (other)
Odisha is an Indian state in Eastern India. Odisha may also refer to: Sports * Odisha cricket team, a cricket team in Odisha, India * Odisha women's cricket team, a women's cricket team in Odisha, India * Hockey Odisha (Odisha Hockey Team), a field hockey team in Odisha, India * Odisha rugby union team, a men's rugby team in Odisha, India * Odisha women's rugby union team, a women's rugby team in Odisha, India * Odisha football team, a men's football team in Odisha, India * Odisha women's football team, a women's football team in Odisha, India * Odisha FC, a football team in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India * Odisha Open, an annual badminton tournament in Odisha, India Companies, groups, organizations * Odisha TV, an Odia Indian cable television station * Air Odisha, a regional airline of India operating from Odisha Other uses * Odisha (genus), a genus of flowering plant * Odisha Day, a public holiday in Odisha, India * Odisha circuit, a Hindi film distribution circuit in Odisha See a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orissa (other)
Orissa is the former name of the state of Odisha in India. Orissa may also refer to: Places * Orissa Subah, a Mughal imperial province * Bihar and Orissa Province, a province of British India from 1912 to 1936 * Orissa Province, a province of British India from 1936 to 1947 * Orissa Tributary States, a group of princely states of British India * Orissa circuit, a Hindi film distribution circuit in Odisha Other uses * ''Orissa'' (film), a 2013 Malayalam film directed by M. Padmakumar * Orissa cyclone, a 1999 tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean * HMIS ''Orissa'' (J200), a Bangor-class minesweeper launched in 1941 * Orissa, the name of Odisha cricket team until 2011 See also * * Orisha (other) * Orissi (other) * Odisha (other) * Odia (other) 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 famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
