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Learn Odia: Odia alphabet chart and letters

Learning Odia language

Oriya

Oriya

Oriya

About Odia

Odia is one of the 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India and the official language of Odisha. The 2011 Census counted 3.75 crore people in India whose mother tongue it is. It is written in the Odia script, known for its rounded letters. The Government of India declared it a classical language in 2014.

To go further: Bharatavani, the portal of India's languages run by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, has dictionaries, primers and books in Odia.

  • Odia Virtual Academy: Government of Odisha: a free digital library of Odia books, dictionaries and language lessons
  • Odisha Sahitya Akademi: Bhubaneswar (Government of Odisha): Odia literature and awards
  • Sahitya Akademi: India's national academy of letters (Ministry of Culture): books, translations and the yearly awards in Odia and the other languages of India

Sources: Census of India 2011, Language (Paper 1 of 2018), speakers of the scheduled languages; the Constitution of India, Eighth Schedule; classical languages, Ministry of Culture (Press Information Bureau, 3 October 2024).