Odia Keyboard Onlineଓଡ଼ିଆ କିବୋର୍ଡ

All 47 Odia letters and every vowel sign on screen, with the halant for clusters like ସ୍ୱ and କ୍ଷ, on the InScript keys used in Odisha.

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Tap the letters, or type on your own keyboard with the Odia InScript keys: vowel signs on the left hand, consonants on the right.

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Build clusters

For a cluster, type the first consonant, the halant ୍, then the next one: ସ ୍ ୱ gives ସ୍ୱ.

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Snapchat: caption a Puri beach or Rath Yatra snap in Odia letters instead of Latin spelling.

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WhatsApp

WhatsApp: send ଜନ୍ମଦିନର ଶୁଭେଚ୍ଛା to family in Odisha with ଁ and ୍ in the right places.

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Instagram: write a bio or a pattachitra caption in Odia script that reads correctly on any phone.

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TikTok: caption an Odissi or Sambalpuri dance clip with proper Odia words, not “Odia in English”.

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The Odia script is round because it was written on palm leaves. Palm leaves tend to tear when a script uses too many straight lines, so Odia letters grew curves and an umbrella-shaped hook over the top. That hook took its classical shape between the 14th and 15th centuries, when palm-leaf manuscripts became the main way to write in the region. The oldest known inscription in Odia, the Urajam inscription, dates from 1051 CE, and in the 15th century Sarala Das retold the Mahabharata in Odia. Printed Odia came later: the Serampore Mission Press printed Odia scripture with its own type in 1807–1809, and the Cuttack Mission Press, the first in Odisha, followed in 1837. In 1895 Madhusudan Rao compiled Barnabodha, the first standardised Odia alphabet book, and between 1931 and 1940 Gopal Chandra Praharaj published the seven-volume Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha, about 185,000 words over some 9,500 pages, adding the letter ୱ for “w”. Odia was in the very first Unicode release in October 1991. On 1 November 2011 the state of Orissa officially became Odisha, and the Constitution's list of languages changed “Oriya” to “Odia”. On 20 February 2014 the Union Cabinet made Odia India's sixth classical language, after Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

Odia reads the letter ଯ as “j”. The script has two forms of ya: ଯ is pronounced like English j, as in ଯାହା (jaha, what), and ୟ is the y sound, as in ସମୟ (samaya, time). Odia also pronounces the last vowel of a word that Hindi and Bengali drop: ଫୁଲ (flower) is “phulo”, not “phul”. It keeps the curled-tongue ଳ, as in ଜଳ (water), which its Eastern Indo-Aryan neighbours do not have. And long and short vowels sound the same, so ଇ and ଈ, or ି and ୀ, are a matter of spelling you learn, not something you hear.

The standard Odia keyboard is InScript, a layout the Government of India standardised in 1986. On the Windows Odia keyboard the left hand types vowel signs and the right hand consonants: ା is on E, ୀ on R, େ on S, ି on F and ୁ on G, while କ sits on K, ର on J, ତ on L and ପ on H. The halant ୍ is on D, and pressing Shift + D gives the full vowel ଅ. Shift on the number row types whole clusters: Shift + 3 gives the subscript ra (୍ର), Shift + 4 the reph (ର୍), Shift + 5 ଜ୍ଞ, Shift + 6 ତ୍ର, Shift + 7 କ୍ଷ and Shift + 8 ଶ୍ର. AltGr with the same keys types the Odia digits ୧ ୨ ୩ to ୦, and ୱ has its own key, B. Digits show how mixed real use is: in a 10,000-sentence sample of Odia Wikipedia we counted 10,248 Odia digits against 39,506 Latin ones. The 2011 census counted 37.52 million Odia speakers, 3.1% of India's population, 93% of them in Odisha. Odia is the official language of Odisha and one of several second official languages of Jharkhand. This page shows every letter and vowel sign on screen and follows the same InScript keys on a physical keyboard, with “ ” and ₹ in the Special popup.

One Letter Added in the 1930s

Odia got its letter for “w” from a dictionary maker, and today it lives mostly under other letters.

47 lettersୱ added 1931–40ଯ = j · ୟ = yଳ kept from old Indo-Aryan
The newest letter

ୱ — wa

ୱସ୍ୱଦ୍ୱବିଶ୍ୱ

The first Odia alphabet book, Barnabodha (1895), wrote ba, va and wa with one letter, ବ. Gopal Chandra Praharaj added ୱ in his Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha (1931–40). In a 10,000-sentence sample of Odia Wikipedia, 2,107 of its 2,328 uses come right after the halant.

ବିଶ୍ୱ — world · ସ୍ୱାଗତ — welcome
Two letters called ya

ଯ is read “j”

ଯୟଯାହା

Odia keeps two forms of ya. ଯ is pronounced like English j, while ୟ is the y sound. On the Windows Odia keyboard ୟ sits on Z and ଯ on Shift + /.

ଯାହା — what, which · ସମୟ — time
A sound its neighbours lost

ଳ — the retroflex l

ଳଜଳକେବଳ

The tongue curls back for ଳ. Odia kept this sound, which its Eastern Indo-Aryan neighbours do not have. It is on Shift + N; plain N gives ଲ.

ଜଳ — water · କେବଳ — only
Nothing silent at the end

The last vowel is spoken

ଫୁଲଘର

A consonant with no vowel sign still carries its vowel, even at the end of a word. ଫୁଲ (flower) is said “phulo”, where Bengali says “phul”.

ଫୁଲ — phulo, flower · ଘର — gharo, house
FAQ

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The Unicode CLDR list used by this keyboard has 47 letters: 11 vowels from ଅ to ଔ (including ଋ) and 36 consonants from କ to ହ, including ଯ, ୟ, ଳ, ୱ and the rare ଵ. ଡ଼, ଢ଼ and କ୍ଷ are typed with two keys or more.
Odia was written on palm leaves for centuries, and palm leaves tend to tear when a script uses too many straight lines. The curves and the umbrella-shaped hook over most letters come from that.
In 2011. The Constitution (Ninety-sixth Amendment) Act replaced “Oriya” with “Odia” in the list of scheduled languages, and the Orissa (Alteration of Name) Act renamed the state Odisha from 1 November 2011.
On 20 February 2014 the Union Cabinet approved classical status for Odia. It was the sixth Indian language to receive it, after Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
Odia has two forms of ya. ଯ is read like English j, as in ଯାହା (jaha, what), and ୟ is the y sound, as in ସମୟ (samaya, time). On the Windows Odia keyboard ୟ is on Z and ଯ on Shift + /.
Gopal Chandra Praharaj, while compiling the Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha (1931–40). Before that, the 1895 primer Barnabodha wrote ba, va and wa with the single letter ବ.
Mostly as the second half of a cluster. In a 10,000-sentence Odia Wikipedia sample, 2,107 of 2,328 uses of ୱ came right after the halant, as in ସ୍ୱାଗତ (welcome), ଦ୍ୱିତୀୟ (second) and ବିଶ୍ୱ (world). Type ସ, then ୍, then ୱ.
Both can stand for va or wa, but ୱ is the standard letter. ଵ is used only now and then and never gained wide acceptance: the same Wikipedia sample has 2 of them against 2,328 of ୱ. On the Windows layout ଵ needs AltGr + B.
A retroflex l, said with the tongue curled back. Among the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Odia is the one that kept it. You hear it in ଜଳ (water) and କେବଳ (only). It is on Shift + N; plain N types ଲ.
No. Odia does not distinguish long and short vowels in speech, so ଇ/ଈ, ଉ/ଊ and the signs ି/ୀ sound alike. The difference is only in spelling: ନଦୀ (river) is written with the long ୀ.
Odia keeps the inherent vowel at the end of words, where Hindi and Bengali drop it. ଫୁଲ (flower) is said “phulo”, while Bengali says “phul”. A final consonant without a vowel sign is still pronounced with its vowel.
Type the first consonant, the halant ୍, then the second consonant: କ + ୍ + ଷ gives କ୍ଷ. On the Windows Odia keyboard the halant is on D, and Shift + 3 to Shift + 8 type ୍ର, ର୍, ଜ୍ଞ, ତ୍ର, କ୍ଷ and ଶ୍ର in one press.
Hold AltGr and press the number keys on the Windows Odia layout: AltGr + 1 gives ୧ and AltGr + 0 gives ୦. Plain number keys type Latin 1 to 0, which most Odia websites use more often.
Type ଡ or ଢ, then the nukta ଼ (the ] key on the Windows layout). Unicode keeps these two letters as a base letter plus nukta in normalised text, so the pair you type is the standard form.
ଁ (candrabindu) nasalises the vowel, as in ମୁଁ (I) and ପାଇଁ (for). ଂ (anusvara) adds an ng sound, as in ଏବଂ (and). ଃ (visarga) adds a light h, as in ଦୁଃଖ (sorrow).
The 2011 census counted 37.52 million Odia speakers, 3.1% of India's population, and 93% of them live in Odisha. It is the official language of Odisha and one of several second official languages of Jharkhand.
Baleswari in the north, Kataki in the centre, Ganjami in the south, Sambalpuri in the west and Desia in the southwest. All of them can be written with the same Odia letters.
The Urajam inscription of 1051 CE is the earliest known inscription in Odia. In the 15th century Sarala Das retold the Mahabharata in Odia, a milestone of Odia literature.

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