Odia script

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Odia script is an abugida of the Brahmic family used primarily to write the Odia language and several other regional Indo-Aryan languages of eastern India.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Brahmic script
abugida
writing system
associatedWithLanguageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
derivedFrom Brahmi script
direction left-to-right
hasCharacteristic inherent vowel /a/
rounded letterforms
vowel diacritics modify consonant signs
hasComponent consonant letters
independent vowel letters
numerals
punctuation marks
vowel signs
hasISO15924Code Orya
hasISO15924Number 327
hasNativeName ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲିପି
hasType syllabic script
hasUnicodeBlock Odia (U+0B00–U+0B7F)
hasUnicodeVersionIntroduced Unicode 1.1
relatedTo Bengali script
surface form: Bengali–Assamese script

Devanagari script
Telugu script
scriptFamily Brahmic family
standardizedIn Unicode
surface form: Unicode Standard
subclassOf Indic script
abugida
timePeriod in continuous use since at least the 10th century CE
usedBy Odia
surface form: Odia people
usedFor Ho language
Koshali language
Kui language
Kui language
surface form: Kuvi language

North Munda languages
surface form: Munda languages

Odia
surface form: Odia language

Sambalpuri language
Santhali
surface form: Santali language

administration in Odisha
education in Odisha
religious texts in Odia
usedIn India
Orissa
surface form: Odisha

eastern India
writingSystemFor Odia language
classical Odia literature
state language of Odisha
writingSystemType alphasyllabary

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Brahmi script hasDescendant Odia script
Subhas hasScript Odia script
Brahmic scripts influenced Odia script
Bengali script relatedTo Odia script
Indo-Aryan languages writingSystem Odia script
Odia writingSystem Odia script
Santhali writingSystem Odia script