REPORT ON THE CURRENT STATUS OF
UNITED NATIONS ROMANIZATION SYSTEMS FOR GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES
Compiled by the UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems
Version 4.0, March 2016

Oriya

The United Nations recommended system was approved in 1972 (II/11) and amended in 1977 (III/12), based on a report prepared by D. N. Sharma. The tables and their corrections were published in volume II of the conference reports1,2.

There is no evidence of the use of the system either in India or in international cartographic products.

Oriya uses an alphasyllabic script whereby each character represents a syllable rather than one sound. Vowels and diphthongs are marked in two ways: as independent characters (used syllable-initially) and in an abbreviated form, to denote vowels after consonants. The romanization table is unambiguous. The system is mostly reversible but there may exist some ambiguities in the romanization of vowels (independent vs. abbreviated characters) and consonants (combinations with subscript consonants vs. character sequences).

Romanization

In the romanization system below the table of subscript and adscript consonants and the list of ligatures has been added.

I. Independent vowel characters

1 ଅ a
2 ଆ ā
3 ଇ i
4 ଈ ī
5 ଉ u
6 ଊ ū
7 ଋ ṛA
8 ଏ e
9 ଐ ai
10 ଓ oB
11 ଔ au

II. Abbreviated vowel characters (କ stands for any consonant character)

1 କ a
2 କା ā
3 କି iA
4 କୀ ī
5 କୁ u
6 କୂ ū
7 କୃ ṛ
8 କେ e
9 କୈ (କୖ) ai
10 କୋ o
11 କୌ (କୗ) au

III. Other symbols (କ stands for any consonant character)

1 କଂ ṁ
2 କଁ m̐
3 କଃ ḥ
4 କ୍ (A)

IV. Consonant characters

1 କ ka
2 ଖ kha
3 ଗ ga
4 ଘ gha
5 ଙ ṅa
6 ଚ cha
7 ଛ chha
8 ଜ ja
9 ଝ jha
10 ଞ ña
11 ଟ ṭa
12 ଠ ṭha
13 ଡ ḍaA
14 ଢ ḍhaA
15 ଣ ṇa
16 ତ ta
17 ଥ tha
18 ଦ da
19 ଧ dha
20 ନ na
21 ପ pa
22 ଫ pha
23 ବ ba
24 ଭ bha
25 ମ ma
26 ଯ ỵaB
27 ର ra
28 ଲ la
29 ଳ ḷa
30 ଶ sha
31 ଷ ṣha
32 ସ sa
33 ହ ha
34 କ୍ଷ kṣha

V. Subscript and adscript consonant characters

Character numbers correspond to those in Table IV (କ stands for any base character)

1 କ୍କ k
2 କ୍ଖ kh
3 କ୍ଗ g
4 କ୍ଘ gh
6 କ୍ଚ ch
7 କ୍ଛ chh
8 କ୍ଜ j
9 କ୍ଝ jh
11 କ୍ଟ ṭ
12 କ୍ଠ ṭh
13 କ୍ଡ ḍ
14 କ୍ଢ ḍh
15 କ୍ଣ ṇ
16 କ୍ତ t
17 କ୍ଥ th
18 କ୍ଦ d
19 କ୍ଧ dh
20 କ୍ନ n
21 କ୍ପ p
22 କ୍ଫ ph
23 କ୍ବ b
24 କ୍ଭ bh
25 କ୍ମ m
26 କ୍ୟ y
27 କ୍ର r
28 କ୍ଲ l
29 କ୍ଳ ḷ
32 କ୍ସ s

VI. Ligatures (the list is not complete)

କ୍କ କ୍ତ କ୍ଳ କ୍ଷ କ୍ଷ୍ଣ କ୍ସ ଙ୍କ ଙ୍କ୍ଷ ଙ୍ଖ ଙ୍ଗ ଙ୍ଘ ଚ୍ଚ
kka kta kḷa kṣha kṣhṇa ksa ṅka ṅkṣha ṅkha ṅga ṅgha chcha
ଚ୍ଛ ଜ୍ଜ ଜ୍ଝ ଜ୍ଞ ଞ୍ଚ ଞ୍ଛ ଞ୍ଜ ଞ୍ଝ ଟ୍ଟ ଡ୍ଡ ଣ୍ଟ ଣ୍ଠ
chchha* jja jjha jña ñcha ñchha ñja ñjha ṭṭa ḍḍa ṇṭa ṇṭha
ଣ୍ଡ ଣ୍ଢ ଣ୍ଣ ତ୍କ ତ୍ତ ତ୍ପ ତ୍ର ତ୍ସ ଦ୍ଗ ଦ୍ଦ ଦ୍ଧ ଦ୍ଭ
ṇḍa ṇḍha ṇṇa tka tta tpa tra tsa dga dda ddha dbha
ନ୍ତ ନ୍ତ୍ର ନ୍ଥ ନ୍ଦ ନ୍ଧ ନ୍ନ ପ୍ତ ପ୍ସ ବ୍ଦ ବ୍ବ ମ୍ପ ମ୍ଫ
nta ntra ntha nda ndha nna pta psa bda bba mpa mpha
ମ୍ବ ମ୍ଭ ମ୍ମ ଳ୍କ ଳ୍ପ ଳ୍ଫ ଳ୍ଭ ଶ୍ଚ ଶ୍ଛ ଷ୍କ ଷ୍ଟ ଷ୍ଠ
mba mbha mma ḷka ḷpa ḷpha ḷbha shcha shchha ṣhka ṣhṭa ṣhṭha
ଷ୍ଣ ଷ୍ପ ଷ୍ଫ ସ୍କ ସ୍ଖ ସ୍ତ ସ୍ତ୍ର ସ୍ଥ ସ୍ପ ସ୍ଫ ହ୍ନ ହ୍ଲ
ṣhṇa ṣhpa ṣhpha ska skha sta stra stha spa spha hna hla

Combinations with r as the first component are written with a special superscript symbol, e.g. ର୍କ rka.

Other systems of romanization

For differences between the UN system and the ISO transliteration standard ISO 15919: 2001 see the section on the romanization of Hindi.

References

  1. Second United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. London, 10–31 May 1972. Vol. II. Technical papers. United Nations. New York 1974, pp. 143–144.
  2. Third United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. Athens, 17 August – 7 September 1977. Vol. II, Technical papers, pp. 393 etc.