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5 unusual facts about Oriya language


Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination

IIT-JEE is conducted only in English and Hindi, making it harder for students where regional languages, like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Oriya, Bengali, Marathi, Assamese or Gujarati, are more prominent.

Nonte Phonte

Minor recurring characters include the headmaster who is quite benign, the cooks at the boarding school hostel who speak Bengali with accents that vary from Bihari, Oriya, and Dhakai, and many students like Nepchada, Lengcha, Boncha.

Odia

Oriya language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family

Oriya language

Distinguished prose writers of the modern period include Fakir Mohan Senapati, Madhusudan Das, Godabarisha Mohapatra, Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, Surendra Mohanty, Manoj Das, Kishori Charan Das, Gopinath Mohanty, Rabi Patnaik, Chandrasekhar Rath, Binapani Mohanty, Bhikari Rath, Jagadish Mohanty, Sarojini Sahoo, Yashodhara Mishra, Ramchandra Behera, Padmaja Pal.

Saraha

The script used in the dohas shows close resemblance with the present Oriya script which implies that Sarahapa has compiled his literature in the earlier language which has similarity with both Oriya language and Angika language (part of Maithili language).


Gender neutrality in genderless languages

In Maithili, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya and Nepali, there are different nouns for professions, but they are not commonly used, so these languages have become gender-neutral.

Gunupur

The major languages spoken in the region are Oriya or Odia (as substituted by the 96th amendment to Indian constitution), Telugu and Tribal languages like Soura and Kui.

Magadhi Prakrit

Magadhi Prakrit later evolved into the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, including Assamese, Bengali, Oriya and the Bihari languages (Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Magahi, among others).

Pratibha Satpathy

She has also translated a number of famous English literatures of well-known writers such as Pearl S. Buck into Oriya language.

Sarala Temple

It is well documented that Sidheshwar Parida - a small time farmer and part-time Oriya Paika - was an ardent follower of the Goddess and it was after her blessings that Sidheshwar Parida became Sarala Das, the author of the Oriya Mahabharata.

Sarthak TV

SARTHAK TV is a popular Indian General Entertainment Channel broadcasting in the regional language Oriya language

It is best known for serving its viewers with a mix of exclusive entertaining content, not limited to mega serials/daily soaps like other Oriya channels.The main reason for the success of SARTHAK TV is its share of different exclusive shows like serials, movies, reality shows and music.

Savitri Brata

Savitri Brata(Oriya:ସାବିତ୍ରୀ ଓଷା or ସାବିତ୍ରୀ ବ୍ରତ) or Savitri Amavasya(Oriya:ସାବିତ୍ରୀ ଅମାବାସ୍ୟା) is a fasting day observed by all Hindu Oriya married women on the Amavasya, the last day of the dark fortnight, in the month of Jyestha.

The Samaja

Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das, a prominent freedom fighter and social worker started it as a weekly from Satyabadi of Puri district of Odisha to facilitate the freedom struggle and to revive the moribund Oriya language.

Vyasanagar College

, in English, Education, Economics, History, Oriya, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and Sanskrit for B.A. and in Accountancy and Management for B.Com totaling 17 options in undergraduate programs.


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