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  Oriya language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oriya is an Indo-Aryan language and is thought to be directly descended from the Prakrit known as Magadhi or Pali which was spoken in Eastern India over 1,500 years ago.
Of all the languages spoken in northern India, Oriya appears to be least influenced by Persian and Arabic.
Oriya has traditionally had a strong Buddhist and Jain influence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oriya   (224 words)

  
 Oriya Diaspora:
The Oriyas, settled abroad, migrated from the state of Orissa, which is bounded by the Bay of Bengal in the east, West Bengal and Bihar in the north, Madhya Pradesh in the west and Andhra Pradesh in the south (Rath 1983: 1-2).
The Oriyas are not only successful in maintaining close contacts with the families and relatives back home but also are very much successful in maintaining the transnational networks with their kith and kin around the globe.
Chandrika Mohapatra for instance, the Oriya lady in the USA is now trying to create a newsletter keeping in view the gap between the realities and perceptions of life in the western countries and in Orissa.
www.geocities.com /husociology/oriya.htm   (3839 words)

  
 Oriya alphabet
The Oriya script developed from the Kalinga script, one of the many descendents of the Brahmi script of ancient India.
The earliest known inscription in the Oriya language, in the Kalinga script, dates from 1051.
The curved appearance of the Oriya script is a result of the practice of writing on palm leaves, which have a tendency to tear if you use too many straight lines.
www.omniglot.com /writing/oriya.htm   (164 words)

  
 Oriya Translation - Translate Oriya Language Translator
Oriya (sometimes spelled Panjabi) is the language of the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan.
Oriya is the official language of the Indian state of Punjab, and is also spoken in neighbouring areas such as Haryana and Delhi.
Oriya is also spoken as a minority language in several other countries, including Afghanistan, as well as many nations where Oriyas have emigrated in large numbers, such as Britain, Canada, and the United States.
www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/oriya.shtml   (616 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Oriya
Oriya, official language of Orissa and one of the 18 languages recognized in the constitution of India.
Oriya is a member of the Eastern Indic group...
Assamese, Indian language of the Indo-Iranian family, spoken by the inhabitants of the Indian state of Assam.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Oriya.html   (72 words)

  
 AncientScripts.com: Oriya
The Oriya script developed from an early form of the Bengali script, which belongs to the Northern group of South Asian scripts.
Oriya is used to write the Oriya language, which is spoken in the modern Indian state of Orissa, located on the east coast of India.
While the cursive shape of the Oriya letters appear to suggest influences from Southern scripts, it is thought that the cursive shape evolved from the need to write on palm leaves with a pointed stylus.
www.ancientscripts.com /oriya.html   (99 words)

  
 Seasons India :: Indian Literature - Oriya
Senapati, held as the father of Oriya fiction, was a man of parts who gained considerable repute as poet, scholar, and social reformer.
Rautray is a major Oriya poet, acclaimed to be the harbinger of modern age in Oriya poetry.
He took Oriya drama to new heights, probed deeply into the contemporary socio-political as well as psychological ethos as a whole, brought Oriya drama on par with new modern drama emerging elsewhere.
www.seasonsindia.com /art_culture/lit_oriya_sea.htm   (865 words)

  
 MetaNym : Oriya Journal and Anthology
Here we present (a) a web-anthology of Oriya poetry of the contemporary period : presenting the poems of a number of poets ranging from Sochi Rautroy (1916) to the poets of the youngest generation and (b) a web-journal of Oriya literature.
Oriya is one of the ancient and most developed Indian languages, with a rich legacy of literary creativity.
Satchidananda Rautroy is the harbinger of the era of “neo-modernity” in Oriya poetry.
www.geocities.com /metanymous   (1545 words)

  
 A practical primer for using Oriya under Linux
This might be a problem with the Oriya font that we are using, and we are in the process of investigating this with the help of a GNOME developer.
The Oriya text is entered using a pseudo-phonetic transcription that is converted into appropriate character codes from the font by the pre-processor.
Although, its support for Oriya is currently inadequate as it does not form conjuncts, we will continue to investigate it in the hopes that it will evolve into a desktop-publishing package that supports Oriya.
oriya.sarovar.org /docs/getting_started_single.html   (6558 words)

  
 Orissa Society of Americas | About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
OSA was founded in 1969 at Boston by a small group of Oriyas as a social association to emulate some of the Oriya ethnicity into life in the United States.
Oriya sweets and snacks are in large demand at the festivals.
Oriya books, periodicals and movies are procured and distributed to keep abreast with the literature and arts.
www.orissasociety.org /about/about.html   (707 words)

  
 Where Will You Go
Oriya had neatly folded his clothes, but that didn’t help the blood on his shirt or the large tear in it.
Oriya had not spoken to him for six months, had not let him stay at Ko Kaku Rou for another eight months after that, and then had not slept with him for another three.
Oriya had never inquired too deeply into their relationship; they were roommates and that was all he felt he needed to know.
www.fatalistic.net /knkfics/wwyg2.html   (3061 words)

  
 Oriya fonts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oriya: utkal (2003, Andy White and Rajesh Pradhan).
Oriya fonts at Agfa Monotype: ITR Jagannath, ITR Konark, ITR Liberty, ITR Surya, Monotype Oriya, ITR Uttama.
Oriya is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 22 million people in the Indian state of Orissa.
jeff.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/oriya.html   (1168 words)

  
 Oriya Language in the Information Age
Oriya is a rich and powerful language and like other Indian languages has the advantage of being a lingua phonic where the alphabets are phonetically used to form words.
We need to ensure that Oriya fonts too are web-enabled and such fonts are freely available to anyone who needs them.
Thus the following work need to be done to computer enable the Oriya language and correct the anomalies that have built over the years due to the neglect of the language in the sphere of computing and software development.
www.designlab-india.com /r_and_d_oriya.htm   (1158 words)

  
 Orchids
Oriya was not so proud as to blind himself to the fact that he had lost his temper that morning, lost his temper with a man who was not well and needed his help no matter how proudly he might deny it.
Oriya had to admit that some part of him hoped that that was what had happened.
Oriya rolled to the side, and chocolate-fl strands floated in the air like spider silk as the katana sliced through his long hair.
doki3.net /void/ynm/orchids/orchids3.html   (2707 words)

  
 OHCHR: Oriya () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oriya is spoken in eastern India, principally in the state of Orissa, which faces the Bay of Bengal.
It is closely related to Bengali, spoken to the north.
The distinctive Oriya script lacks the continuous horizontal top line of other Indian languages, most of its letters containing a large semicircle at the top.
www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/ory.htm   (120 words)

  
 My Heart a Hunter
Oriya's mother taught Oriya that white is an unlucky color, and sent him to a high school with a dark uniform.
Oriya does not think his mother would like Kazutaka, but his coloring is only a part of it.
Oriya bound it with his own, jerked it out of the boy's hands and then stepped close, crowding the boy against the maple tree.
www.slashcity.org /lorelei/hunter.html   (2737 words)

  
 Ovid in Orissa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Though Oriya has strong affinities with the Indo-Aryan group of languages and shares common linguistic features with the Northern languages, it also has a pronounced leaning towards its Southern counterparts and cultures.
The pattern of commonality, especially between the Oriya and Andhra cultures-in terms of common lexicon, myth and metaphor - is too well documented by scholars to merit separate discussion.
The Ganga kings were the builders of the Jagannath temple at Puri in the tenth centurv A.D. Kanchi Kaberi, the well known poetical composition in Oriya, celebrates the journey to Kanchi in the South by King Purushottam Dev to win the hand of Padmavati, the princess of Kanchi.
www.mahanadi.com /kasturi/ovid.asp   (850 words)

  
 Where Will You Go
Oriya tilted his head back and let out a slight, breathy sigh as Muraki gave the treatment to each of his fingers in turn.
Oriya tilted his head back and was unable to hold back a moaning cry.
Oriya said it was because he used scented oils and was the sexiest bastard in Japan.
www.fatalistic.net /knkfics/wwyg3.html   (3542 words)

  
 Oriya
Oriya - English Translation: Professional Translators for all 14 languages of India; Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi,
Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Andhra Pradesh are other states of India where Oriya is spoken.
Oriya is a Sanskrit based language and uses modified
www.deeptrans.com /deeptrans/orriya.html   (173 words)

  
 Oriya x Hisoka Fan Community
Oriya wants to go to him, but the boy's partner is there.
He dreams of it, Hisoka asleep beside him while dawn flushes delicate color into that face; and then waking him to a stronger flush with a kiss, a touch, the murmur of his name.
Oriya is no longer the ally of Hisoka's foe.
www.livejournal.com /community/orisoka   (581 words)

  
 Mithun helps Oriya movie taste success- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A Jugara Krushna Sudama, released across Orissa in January, is back at as many as 11 cinema theatres for a second time primarily because of the performance of the Bengali actor, who dazzled Bollywood with his dancing in the 1980s.
About eight Oriya films had been released since January, but A Jugara Krushna Sudama was the only one that had been a commercial success, the producer said.
Naik is perhaps the only Oriya film producer who has risked roping in stars from Bollywood and Bengali cinema to add to a movie's appeal.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=71086   (360 words)

  
 [Ornet] oriya families in North America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Negotiations for timeslots for continuation of Oriya classes during the Convention have not been successful.
Oriyas are rather unruly and hence are difficult to manage.
Various families have taught Oriya to their children at home and they have been enormously successful.
lists.cs.columbia.edu /pipermail/ornet/2002-July/005000.html   (834 words)

  
 Sushant's Home Page. Enter here to download a Phonetic Oriya Font and listen Oriya Songs
This is designed for people like me, who are away from Orissa and want to write letters home using Computers, but suffer due to unavailability of Oriya fonts.(Or the cost of the available packages are too much).
Oriya withour Yuktakhyar is like fish without water.
While we have disagreed upon the what would be an "ideal standard", we all have always agreed that a standard needs to be developed and enforced to ensure compatibility between different font vendors.
members.tripod.com /%7Esushantdash/index.html   (865 words)

  
 Oriya Internet Library Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
During the bhajan program on July 17, 1999 decision was taken to form an Oriya internet library.
Oriya families who regularly attend the bhajan program could benefit from this.
Bhagawat Gita - Biharilal Pandit (Oriya) : br-im2
www.bme.jhu.edu /~bdas/globe.html   (347 words)

  
 ORIYA FILMS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Initially it was silent, then it appeared with sound recorded on 35mm and 16mm films strips (takies).
The first Oriya takies "Sita-Bibaha" based on a drama of Kamapala Mishra was produced in 1934-35 by Mohan Sundar Dev Goswami of Puri made with a cost of Rs.30,000.
But in 1970, a branch of EIMPPA started functioning at Cuttack, but it catered to the needs of the distribution in general rather than to the needs of Oriya film producers.
www.cyberorissa.com /fp/entertan/oriyaflm.htm   (209 words)

  
 [Ornet] Re: established ORIYA singers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Today the oriya music industry is much bigger than what it was in 15 years ago.
According to you just because several thousand oriya's in USA allegedly do not like to speak in oriya, listen to oriya song, does not have any impact in the oriyaness of the people of Orissa, India.
Hence the industry also grows there and rest assured that the people of orissa will not forget to speak or sing in oriya years from now.
lists.cs.columbia.edu /pipermail/ornet/2002-May/004198.html   (1013 words)

  
 The DP Analysis of English and Oriya Noun Phrases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oriya classifiers are distinguished into two types: the -Taa type, which is generated higher than the numerals in the phrase structure tree, and the other type which is generated lower than the numerals.
One characteristic of the Oriya number system is that number is realized either as a numeral or as nominal inflection but not as both, i.e, the plural marker and a number word cannot co-occur.
Besides the definite article -ka, Oriya has a null definite article which has all the properties of -ka.
www.ling.upenn.edu /sassn/6/node14.html   (174 words)

  
 rediff.com: 'Non-Oriya' Patnaik under attack from partymen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Patnaik was criticised for his inability to learn Oriya, maintaining a non-Oriya lifestyle and his keenness to promote non-Oriya bureaucrats.
Although Oriya is the official language of the state, since Patnaik took over, all work is being done in English.
Former chief minister J B Patnaik of the Congress, a staunch advocate of Oriya, had ordered all work in the state should be done in Oriya.
www.rediff.com /news/2000/oct/19oris1.htm   (283 words)

  
 Oriya Bibles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oriya is one of the languages of India.
Oriya New Testament from the World Bible Translation Center
The "JESUS" Film, based on the Gospel of Luke, has been translated into Oriya.
www.ethnicharvest.org /bibles/oriya.htm   (123 words)

  
 Unicode Oriya Font Support from XenoType Technologies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Oriya Language Kit will be one of the final components in our suite of Indic support products.
The unique circular appearance of the Oriya script makes it difficult to discern its Brahmic roots but with a little bit of practice the similarities quickly become apparent.
The Oriya script has all the traditional features of scripts like Devanagari: composite vowels, graphic transposition and conjunct consonants.
www.xenotypetech.com /osxOriya.html   (170 words)

  
 Global Oriya community events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oriyas in Michigan, USA got together for annual picnic on Aug 8th 2004.
Oriya Jagannatha Bhajana, Sankha, Hulahuli,ghanta dhwani and Kirtana made devotees to forget about the rest of the world for a while.
Oriya community of Florida, USA had celebrated Orissa Day on April 17at Land-o-lake community center, Land-o-lakes, FL.
worldorissa.com /Events_observed2.htm   (1018 words)

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