Oriya script - Factbites

Oriya script - Factbites
Where results make sense
About us | Why use us? | Reviews | PR | Contact us

Topic: Oriya script

Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.

In the News (Tue 7 Oct 08)

Breast Cancer

Golden Circle

Keating Five

Stephen Harper

Eli Lilly

Nobel Prize

Eli Manning

Josh Beckett

Sage Rosenfels

South Ossetia

	Oriya alphabet
		The Oriya script developed from the Kalinga script, one of the many descendents of the Brahmi script of ancient India.
		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.
		The earliest known inscription in the Oriya language, in the Kalinga script, dates from 1051.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/oriya.htm (164 words)

	Oriya alphabet
		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.
		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.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/oriya.htm (164 words)

	Oriya alphabet
		The Oriya script developed from the Kalinga script, one of the many descendents of the Brahmi script of ancient India.
		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.
		The earliest known inscription in the Oriya language, in the Kalinga script, dates from 1051.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/oriya.htm (164 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kharosthi
		The Kharoṣṭhī script, also known as the Gāndhārī script, is an ancient alphabetic script used by the Gandhara culture of historic northwest India to write the Gandhari and Sanskrit languages (the Gandhara kingdom was located along the present-day border between Afghanistan and Pakistan between the Indus River and the Khyber Pass).
		Oriya alphabet is used to write the Oriya language.
		An analysis of the script forms shows a clear dependency on the Aramaic alphabet but with extensive modifications to support the sounds found in Indic languages.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kharosthi (2145 words)

	Appendix: Oriya OpenType specification
		Note: both the script and language tags are case sensitive (script tags should be lowercase, language tags are all caps) and must contain four characters (ie.
		Features are encoded according to both a designated script and language system.
		The "dflt" language system is used as the default if no other language specific features are defined or if the application does not support that particular language.
	www.microsoft.com /typography/otfntdev/oriyaot/appen.htm (258 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.
		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.
		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.
	www.ancientscripts.com /oriya.html (99 words)

	Unicode Oriya Font Support from XenoType Technologies
		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.
		The Oriya Language Kit will be one of the final components in our suite of Indic support products.
	www.xenotypetech.com /osxOriya.html (170 words)

	Brahmi alphabet
		The descendants of the Brahmi alphabet include: Bengali, Devanāgarī, Gujarāti, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Khmer, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan
		Ahom, Balinese, Batak, Bengali, Brahmi, Buhid, Burmese, Cham, Dehong Dai/Tai Le, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hanuno'o, Hmong, Javanese, Kannada, Kharosthi, Khmer, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Manpuri, Modi, Oriya, Phags-pa, Ranjana, Redjang, Sharda, Siddham, Sinhala, Sorang Sompeng, Sourashtra, Soyombo, Syloti Nagri, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Dam, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tocharian, Varang Kshiti
		The Brahmi alphabet is the ancestor of most of the 40 or so modern Indian alphabets, and of a number of other alphabets, such as Khmer and Tibetan.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/brahmi.htm (170 words)

	Oriya
		The Oriya script is an abugida written from left to right.
		Below is a sample of Oriya script representing the equivalent of the phrase "Universal Declaration of Human Rights".
		Oriya (pronounced odia) is thought to have descended from a Prakrit known as Pali that was spoken in Eastern India over 1,500 years ago.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/february/oriya.html (321 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Oriya
		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.
		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.
	www.ancientscripts.com /oriya.html (118 words)

	Unicode Oriya Font Support from XenoType Technologies
		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.
		With an appropriate Unicode-compatible application, you can use our Unicode Oriya support to produce lots of different types of documents, including emails, web pages, standard text documents and lots more.
	www.xenotypetech.com /osxOriya.html (170 words)

	Oriya OpenType specification
		The Oriya script is used to write the Oriya language for the northern India state of Orissa, as well as other minority languages such as Khondi and Santali.
		In addition to being a primer and specification for the creation and support of Oriya fonts, this document is intended to more broadly illustrate the OpenType Layout architecture, feature schemes, and operating system support for shaping and positioning text.
		Registered features of the Oriya script are defined and illustrated, encodings are listed, and templates are included for compiling Oriya layout tables for OpenType fonts.
	www.microsoft.com /typography/otfntdev/oriyaot (248 words)

	Eden's Page:Scripts of all of Asia
		North Indian script are to the left and South Indian scripts are in the middle, then the Arabic based scripts are on the right.
		Each script has a different way of creating consonants compounds, so be careful!
		An asterisk denotes that letter is a part of an extended character set of the alphabet.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/9594 (748 words)

	Orissa-Bibliographie
		A Devanagari transcript of the famous Sanskrit work of the same name composed by an arcaka of Puri Temple in the second half of the 18th century (after 1750 A. D.) and published by the Raja of Somepur in Oriya character in the year 1928.
		A devanagari transcript of an Oriya copy of a now destroyed palmleaf MS which was in possession of Shri K.C. Rajaguru of Puri.
	www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de /abt/IND/orissa/orissa2.htm (9081 words)

	OHCHR: Oriya () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
		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.
		Oriya is spoken in eastern India, principally in the state of Orissa, which faces the Bay of Bengal.
		OHCHR: Oriya () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/ory.htm (120 words)

	Oriya
		Oriya is a Sanskrit based language and uses modified
		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.
	www.deeptrans.com /deeptrans/orriya.html (173 words)

	Encyclopedia: Oriya
		The Oriya script, which like all Nagari writing systems is strictly speaking an abugida rather than an alphabet, is used to write the Oriya language and somewhat resembles Devanagari and Bengali scripts.
		Oriya is the official language of the Indian state of Orissa.
		Visit www.odia.org to download a phonetic Oriya Translitation Editor.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Oriya (108 words)

	Oriya - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Oriya
		The Oriya script, which like all Nagari writing systems is strictly speaking an abugida rather than an alphabet, is used to write the Oriya language, Adivasi Oriya, Duruwa, Ho (Orissa), Khondi (Kui), Koya, and Santali.
		Oriya is the official language of the Indian state of Orissa.
		Here you will find more informations about Oriya.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Oriya.html (105 words)

	Oriya Desk Top Publishing, Oriya Dictionary, Oriya Fonts, Oriya Learn, Oriya Reference, Oriya Software - Mac, Oriya Software - Windows, Oriya Spell Checking, Oriya System, Oriya Word Processing,
		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.
		Oriya is spoken in eastern India, principally in the state of Orissa, which faces the Bay of Bengal.
		It is one of the official provincial languages recognized by the Indian constitution.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Oriya.htm?CalledFrom=210325 (242 words)

	Brahmi Script
		The Brahmi script is the ancestor of practically all modern Indian writing systems, at all there are about 40 varieties of them nowadays, including Tibetan, Singhalese, Sharada, Newari, Bengali, Oriya, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Lahnda, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Thai, Devanagari.
		Thus the Brahmi script was the Indian equivalent of the Greek script that gave arise to a host of different systems.
		This script appeared in India most certainly by the 5th century BC, but the fact that just like the Greek alphabet, it had many local variants, which suggests that its origin lies further back in time.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /project/script/brahm.html (242 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Bengali
		The old Bengali script (11th century CE) is also the parent to many other scripts of eastern India, such as Oriya, Manipuri, and Maithili.
		Bengali is a Nagari-derived script that appeared in eastern South Asia around the 11th century CE.
		The Bengali script is used to languages in eastern India such as Bengali, Assamese, and Manipuri.
	www.ancientscripts.com /bengali.html (129 words)

	OHCHR: Oriya () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
		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.
		Oriya is spoken in eastern India, principally in the state of Orissa, which faces the Bay of Bengal.
		OHCHR: Oriya () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/ory.htm (120 words)

	Oriya - Wikpedia
		The Oriya script, which like all Nagari writing systems is strictly speaking an abugida rather than an alphabet, is used to write the Oriya language, Adivasi Oriya, Duruwa, Ho (Orissa), Khondi (Kui), Koya, and Santali.
		Oriya is the official language of the Indian state of Orissa.
		Visit www.odia.org to download a phonetic Oriya Translitation Editor.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Oriya (74 words)

	Punjabi/Gurmukhi fonts
		The company sells fonts for the following languages: Amharic, Aksara Kaganga, Arabic, Armenian, Balinese, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Coptic, Devanagari (Hindi/Marathi/Nepali), Farsi, Georgian, Glagolitic, Gujerathi, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hebrew, Japanese, Javanese, Jawi, Kannada, Korean, Laotian, Lontarak, Malayalam, Old Bulgarian, Oriya, Pushto, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Surat Pustaha, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese.
		Gurmukhi is not only used by Sikhs but by Hindus as well as Muslims living in Punjab to represent their common spoken language, Punjabi.
		Gurmukhi fonts at Agfa Monotype: Monotype Gurmukhi, ITR Kabel, ITR Mahan, ITR Manohar, ITR Nilesh, ITR Ranjit, ITR Vijay, ITR Yogesh.
	cgm.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/punjabi.html (74 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Indo-Iranian, pt. 2
		On this page so far are Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Pahari, Panjabi, and Sindhi.
		The language is written in Gurmukhi script, which was invented by the second guru, in the 16th century, and is based on devanagari.
		In Pakistan, Sindhi is written with the Arabic script with the addition of several letters.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/indirn2h.htm (1158 words)

	Myanmar/Burmese script and pronunciation
		The Myanmar or Burmese script developed from the Mon script, which was adapted from a southern Indian script during the 8th century.
		The earliest known inscriptions in the Myanmar script date from the 11th century.
		Ahom, Balinese, Batak, Bengali, Brahmi, Buhid, Burmese/Myanmar, Cham, Dehong Dai/Tai Le, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Grantha, Gujarati, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hanuno'o, Hmong, Javanese, Kannada, Kayah Li, Kharosthi, Khmer, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Manpuri, Modi, Oriya, Phags-pa, Ranjana, Redjang, Sharda, Siddham, Sinhala, Sorang Sompeng, Soyombo, Syloti Nagri, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Dam, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tocharian, Varang Kshiti
	www.omniglot.com /writing/burmese.htm (1158 words)

	ASIAN LANGUAGE LINKS
		Balinese, Batak, Bengali, Buhid, Burmese, Cham, Dehong (Tai Nua), Devanagari Gujarati, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hanunoo, Hmong, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Oriya, Ranjana, Redjang (Kaganga), Sinhala, Sorang, Sompeng, Soyombo, Sylhettan, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Dam, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tocharian, Varang Kshiti.
		Ethiopic script (Amharic), Hiragana (Japanese), Katakana (Japanese), Yi (Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, China).
		Shows how to write Urdu alphabet (Arabic script)
	www.winternationalstudent.com /language.htm (1158 words)

	KryssTal : Writing - Oriya
		The Oriya script is used for writing the langauge of the same name spoken in
		The curved structure of the letters arises from the use of palm leaves for writing.
		A straight line would cause the leaves to break.
	www.krysstal.com /writing_oriya.html (47 words)

	Features: Devanagari OpenType specification
		Some illustrations based on the scripts; Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, and Tamil are also included, though these are not a part of the MANGAL font.
		When using the MANGAL font to produce illustrations, the "Devanagari" script was active, and the Hindi language was chosen.
		Applications may need to display shaped and positioned clusters for an entire string of text, or for a string of text as it is being typed.
	www.microsoft.com /typography/otfntdev/devanot/features.htm (1720 words)

	Sections
		If Dharitri will try to publish them in their respective languages using Oriya script, then it will be very tough for the story writers of Dharitri as some of the Asian languages are very difficult to write.
		Have you ever checked with the Oriya medium school teachers, most of them are out dated and don't have enough knowledge on the subject matters they are teaching.
		This forced the Oriya people read the Bengoli caption even if they didn't like it.
	www.dharitri.com /readers99.asp (555 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Topic: Oriya script

Ads by Google

Related Topics

In the News (Tue 7 Oct 08)