Learn how to read, write and speak in Odia (Oriya, ଓଡ଼ିଆ)
Channel: Subhashish
Date: 2014-08-28

Learn how to read, hand-write and pronounce the characters of Odia alphabet from this video. This is designed to keep non-native speakers in mind but it can be used by anyone.

Please note that though there exists three variations of "s" (ସ, ଶ ଓ ଷ) in Odia, they all are pronounced as "so" (ସ). There is no long vowel in Odia and most words do not have conjunct pronunciations even though they exist in writing as an influence of Sanskrit and other foreign languages. Almost all the Odia words end with a vowel. "v" is pronounced as "bho" e.g. "vice" as "bhaiso" (ଭାଇସ), and "w" as "uo" e.g. "will" as "uilo" (ଉଇଲ).

Odia (Oriya) is a South Asian language that is primarily spoken by about 50 million people in modern day Odisha, India, and in many other places in the country and abroad by the Odia diaspora, and as a second language by a few more millions mostly in the neighboring states of Odisha. It is one of the six classical Indian languages with a history of more than 5,000 years.

Thanks to all those gave feedback while this tutorial was being designed, especially: Sambit Mohapatra, Amir Aharoni, Erin McLaughlin, Alessia Mazzarella, Sam Walton, Kris Cheng, Piotr Konieczny, Nasir Khan Saikat, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu, Subhransu Panda and Tito Dutta.

Direction, background score and production by Subhashish Panigrahi. Released under CC-BY-SA 4.0 (free to download, use, share and remix).

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