Mohapatra describes the sound systems in Oriya very lucidly. He has also described the borrowed words of Dravidian languages, Tribal languages, Perso-Arabic words, Turkish words, English words, Portuguese words, and some other Indian languages words. He offers a formal checklist for identifying the relationships of Oriya with Pali, Prakrit, and Apabhrmasha. He has also compared the Oriya vowels and the consonants in great details in comparison with Sanskrit.
Sahu presents the changes which has occurred in due course of time in the Oriya sounds. He has explained the Oriya Phonology by classifying the sounds in Oriya and he has described the borrowed words by classifying them into Tatsama, Tadbhaba, Desaja, Foreign, English, Portuguese, Pharsi, and many other foreign words. He has given a huge list of the borrowed words which are still in use. He has pointed out many tribal and Dravidian words in details.
Mohanty explains the Oriya language movements through out the ages. He begins with an introduction on mother-tongue by Gandhiji, Gopabandhu, Meher, etc. He describes the ancient scripts and language history of Oriya. He has also mentioned the Assamiya language movement in accordance with Oriya. He uses specific examples from John Beams, and many events of Oriya language movements. He mentions the Sambalpuri language movement. He has described how the Oriya language became the Official language or Orissa and also about the Oriya language commission. He has taken many instances from Utakal Deepika, Sambalpur Hiteisini, different letters and writings of many authors and writers. He has discussed on Oriya language movement under different leaders of Orissa in great details. He has mentioned some leaders like John Beams, Fakir Mohan, Senapati, Madhusudan Das, Gouri Shankar Ray, Praharaj, Gangadhar Meher, Pandit Nilakantha Das, Godabarisha Mishra, Radhanatha Rath, Harekrushna Mahatab, Janaki Ballabha Pattanayak who have played the lead role in the Oriya language movement.
In this present book, Mohapatra explains the past, present and the future progress of Oriya language in a chronological order. He has presented thoroughly the Oriya etymology, paleography, the Oriya grammatical structure, it’s semantic and also the dialectology of Oriya. He has talked on the linguistic survey and the dialect geography where he has talked a little bit on the Sambalpuri dialect. Then he mentions about the stylistics and the literature of the tribal people with many examples. At the end he has mentioned the demographic view of the languages of Orissa. He has pointed out some of the major aspects on standardizing the Oriya language with some major language planning schemes. He also argues on the language loyalty of the Oriya speakers. He has also pointed out on various aspects on how to develop the Oriya language and community in the era of globalization.
In this small but significant and thought provoking book of 84 pages, he has argued in favor of the Oriya language planning. He puts forward the present scenario of the Oriya speaking community and society. He has presented the book in 20 points where he has talked on the death of Oriya language, what is the condition of Oriya among the other Indian languages. He also speaks on what is standard Oriya and how to develop the Oriya language in the age of Information Technology.
This book is one of the most influential books of Mohapatra on Oriya grammar during the 80’s. He starts with an introduction on the Indian Linguistics and Philology with examples from Sanskrit and Oriya. Then he talks about the relationships of Oriya language with the Primary education, different Oriya dictionaries, and the social behavior. He has focused on the language used in the Oriya newspapers. Then he talks on the Oriya typewriter. He has also mentioned about the publishing of the ancient Oriya literature with a special notes on the “Ramabibha” of Arjun Das. Then he speaks on the identification of the age of the ancient Oriya language and literature. At the end, he goes back to the description of the evolution of Oriya language, its alphabets, words, etc.
This is one of the very few books on Oriya linguistics during the 80’s. In this book, Pattanayak has accumulated many things in a small volume. He describes the language education and the importance of the language laboratory. He focuses on the current trends in the Oriya linguistics and its application with a comparative study of Oriya with Bengali and Sanskrit. In this particular chapter he vividly explains many important grammatical concepts along with a deep outlook into the various books written by the other Oriya grammarians. Then in the next chapters, he talks on the descriptive Oriya grammar starting from the Oriya script, alphabets, phonemes, graphemes, sentence types. Then he switches over to the Oriya pronunciation, the Oriya Parts of Speech description and the essay writing in Oriya. The book ends with history of Oriya language evolution in reference with the volumes of “Linguistic Survey of India” from Sir Grierson and from “Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India” of John Beams.
This is the first book in Oriya of its kind in the describing the Language Families in Oriya. The author categories the languages of the world into 2 types. They are the Isolating, Positional, Inorganic, Analytic (ayYogawmaka) and the Agglutinating, Organic, Synthetic, Inflectional, abounding in affixes (yYogAwmaka). Then he explains on the different language families such as the Bushman, Bantu, Semitic, Australian, Dravidian, Indo-European, etc. In the second chapter, Sahoo insists on the different Indo-Aryan language families with small descriptions for all.
This is a 956 page tome that tells you more than the ordinary person would ever want to know about the gradual development of Oriya language. Mohanty has explained the different language families of the world and has discussed briefly on the Indo-European languages at the beginning. The author has explains the effects of different language families on Oriya, mainly how the Musalmani, Pharasi, Brajboli, and many other European languages have influenced a lot to Oriya. The evolution of Oriya language and words and scripts have been described properly. Mohanty has taken into consideration the Pali, Prakrit and Apabhrmasa language in a view to give a proper foundation to the Oriya language. He has also discussed not only about the language used in Sarala literature, Chandipurana, Brahmageeta of Balarama das, Tulabhina of Jagannath Das, examples of indeclinables and affixes in Oriya language but also about the Oriya language movement.
This is a bilingual dictionary from Oriya to Oriya and English with a huge collection of more than fifty thousand words. It gives a complete word list with meanings and Parts of Speech description covering almost all the Oriya terms and expressions relating to many fields. Finally, it provides information to the users on how to use a proper word in a proper place. This book is designed for the students, teachers, researchers, etc. It is one of the most appreciated and extensively referred book in Oriya.
This monolingual dictionary in Oriya is a resource of meanings and synonyms for Oriya words in brief and clarity. Das has compiled more than fifty thousand words and has given meanings with their Parts of Speech which are meant for various language research works. This dictionary offers a structured and comprehensive study of the Oriya words. The author has taken many borrowed words from Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit into consideration. This is a useful dictinary or a tool for Oriya Corpus studies.
This book is the first of its kind to deal with the phonetics of Oriya. Though it deals at length with one aspect of the language, that is aspiration in Oriya, yet it is a fine introduction to a general understanding of Oriya phonetics. In this work phonetic statement are based on the perception techniques o observation and recored and are supported by Palatographic and Kymographic evidence, or by both, specially keyed to the analysis. This book was the thesis of Dhall which was turned into a book. This book is a piece of pioneer work in the field of descriptive linguistics of Oriya which is an interest for linguists as well as phoneticians in particular.
This book fills up a big gap being the first major study which presents a historical picture of Oriya Morphology. The scholars of linguistics and Oriya language researchers in particular will be immensely benefited by the book which contains in it enough materials needed for a deep study in the subject. I t presents a complete history of the Oriya language - beginning from Carya it traverses a long way in the developmental process to reach the modern Oriya language. The chapters captioned as “The formative affixes”, “The nominal declension”, “The pronominal declension”, “Numerals”, “Verbs”, etc. themselves speak about the subject matters dealt with and elaborated there-in. Besides, the Introduction presents a concise picture of the Oriya phonology, script, dialects, linguistic features. Lastly, the exhaustive “Word Index” is also of immense help to the scholars and researchers.
This is an informative book on historical phonology of Oriya with a detailed scientific description of the language. This book is a attempt to treat Oriya in the light of the so-called Magadhan inheritances. The list of Oriya inscriptions and the Introduction of the book is very informative. In the introduction Majumdar has talked on the scope and methodology, position of Oriya amongst the IA languaes, linguistic boundaries, dialects, orthgraphy of Oriya, and the old Oriya and some of its phonological aspects. The fifteen chapters of this book deals with the study of vowels and consonants of Oriya with reference to diphthongisation, contraction, nasalation of Oriya vowels, vowel mutation, sources of Oriya consonants and finally on stress accent in Oriya.
The book begins with history of Oriya inscriptions, Palaeography, punctuation, vocabularies in great details. Then Tripathy talks about the phonology and grammatical study of Oriya gender, case, declension of nouns and pronouns, verbs, participles, syntax, and many other linguistic features. In the second part, inscriptions of Oriya which have been collected from various parts of Orissa have been translated and explained. The third part deals with the index of nouns, verbs, case-endings and post positions, selected words, some telugu words. The photographs of the scripts and inscriptions which have been given at the appendix are a rare collection in the study of Oriya language and script evolution.
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