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namaskaara → ନମସ୍କାର, as you type
Tips: aa=ା R=ଡ଼ T/D/N=ଟ ଡ ଣ x=କ୍ଷ jn=ଜ୍ଞ M/H=ଂ ଃ |=।
Try: oRishaa bhaaratara eka sundara raajya
Tamil has fewer consonants than Odia — aspirated and voiced letters are folded to their closest Tamil letter.
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Paste text from a Word or LibreOffice document typed in the Akruti Odia font. Copy from the original file (not a PDF); the pasted text will look like garbled Latin — that is exactly what the converter needs. Everything runs in your browser.
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v1.0 accuracy: 100% on our test corpus of 225 words (three paragraphs of tribute writing including proper names, conjuncts, reph, split vowels, and Odia numerals). Other Akruti fonts and documents will surface glyphs not yet in the table — please flag them.
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Akruti, Sambad, Sreelipi, GIST, Apranta and Mukta are typefaces/products of their respective owners; names are used here only to identify compatibility. Conversion is performed by original code that maps encoding facts, not by redistributing any font.
What Akshara does
Script → Script converts text between nine Indic scripts — Odia, Devanagari (Hindi/Marathi/Sanskrit), Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Tamil. Unicode encodes these scripts in parallel, so each letter maps to its counterpart. This converts the script, not the language: ଓଡ଼ିଆ → ओड़िआ lets a Hindi reader pronounce Odia words; it does not translate their meaning.
Type in English → ଓଡ଼ିଆ lets you write Odia phonetically on any keyboard: type namaskaara, get ନମସ୍କାର. Consonant clusters form conjuncts automatically (sundara → ସୁନ୍ଦର).
Akruti ↔ Unicode converts in both directions: pre-Unicode Odia text — old newspapers, DTP files, and government documents typed in the Akruti font — into searchable, shareable Unicode. Version 1.2 converts both ways — Akruti → Unicode for reading and sharing old documents, and Unicode → Akruti for presses and DTP workflows that still typeset in the Akruti font. Both directions were validated against two independent real documents — 343 words covering proper names, complex conjuncts (ର୍ଣ୍ଣ, ମ୍ଭ, ଙ୍ଗ, ଣ୍ଟ, ତ୍ମ, ସ୍ତ), pre-base and split matras, reph, visarga, and Odia numerals — and reproduce them identically, character for character, in each direction — every document also survives a full round trip (Akruti → Unicode → Akruti) unchanged. Other Akruti documents will surface new glyphs — please flag any wrong result and the table improves for everyone. Sambad, Sreelipi, GIST and others are next.
Why “Akshara”
In Odia and Sanskrit, ଅକ୍ଷର (akshara) means a letter of the script — and, literally, “the imperishable”: that which does not decay. This tool exists to keep Odia writing readable across generations of technology, so no word set down in our script is ever lost to a dead encoding.
Akshara is dedicated to the memory of Manamohan Mishra, and grew out of the making of a book of writings by those who loved him. May everything written in his memory — and everything anyone writes in this script — remain imperishable.
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Press the Flag wrong result button beneath the converter — it attaches your input and the result automatically, and you can add what you expected. Accuracy improves fastest with real examples: every report becomes a permanent test case. You can also email mishrasuraj32@gmail.com directly.
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- Manamohan Akshara is provided free, “as is”, without warranty of any kind. Verify converted text before official or published use.
- All conversion code on this page is original work by the site owner. Script conversion uses the Unicode Standard’s parallel Indic block layout; Unicode® is a registered trademark of Unicode, Inc.
- The phonetic typing scheme is an original ruleset written for this site.
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