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{{Short description|Indian academic and linguist}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=September 2018}}
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| birth_place = [[Tigiria]], [[Cuttack district|Cuttack]], [[Odisha]]
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| alma_mater = [[Cornell University]], New York, [[Ravenshaw University]], [[Cuttack]]
| occupation = Professor, linguist, social scientist and author
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| organization = [[Central Institute of Indian Languages]], [[Mysore]]
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| notable_works = Adding [[Bodo language]] to the 8th schedule of the [[Constitution of India]], classical language status for [[Odia language|Odia]]
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| parents = Madhusudan Pattanayak, Minamali Debi
| relatives = [[Akshaya Mohanty]] (brother-in-law)
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]
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'''Debi Prasanna Pattanayak''' (born 14 March 1931) is an Indian professor, [[linguist]], [[social scientist]] and author.<ref name="Pattanayak19901">{{cite book|author=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|title=Multilingualism in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQYICqUZJ8UC&pg=PA115|year=1990|publisher=Multilingual Matters|isbn=978-1-85359-072-6|pages=115–}}</ref> He was the founder-director of the [[Central Institute of Indian Languages]], [[Mysore]] and former chairman of [[Institute of Odia Studies and Research]], Bhubaneswar. Pattanayak was awarded [[Padma Shri]] in [[List of Padma Shri award recipients (1980–89)|1987]].<ref name=pdma>{{cite web |title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2009) |publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] |url=http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf |quote=32 Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak PS KAR Litt. & Edu. |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510095705/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf |archivedate=2013-05-10 }}</ref> for his contribution to formalize, and adding [[Bodo language]] in the 8th schedule of the [[Constitution of India]]. He also take a major role led [[Odia language]] to acquire the status of a "classical language".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/jubilation-over-classical-language-status-for-odia/article5712461.ece|title = Jubilation over classical language status for Odia|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 21 February 2014|last1 = Barik|first1 = Satyasundar}}</ref>

[[File:Debi Prasanna Pattanayak talkng at International Conclave for Odia language 2015, New Delhi.ogg|thumb|Debi Prasanna Pattanayak delivering keynote speech at International Conclave for Odia language 2015, New Delhi]]

== Selected works ==
* Multilingualism in India<ref name="Pattanayak1990">{{cite book|author=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|title=Multilingualism in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQYICqUZJ8UC&pg=PA118|year=1990|publisher=Multilingual Matters|isbn=978-1-85359-072-6|pages=118–}}</ref>
* Intensive Hindi course: drills<ref name="PattanayakFairbanks1968">{{cite book|author1=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|author2=Gordon H. Fairbanks|author3=Bal Govind Misra|title=Intensive Hindi course: drills|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8oBjAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=American Institute of Indian Studies}}</ref>
* Language and Social Issues: Princess Leelavathi Memorial Lectures<ref name="Pattanayak1981">{{cite book|author=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|title=Language and Social Issues: Princess Leelavathi Memorial Lectures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F6phAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Prasaranga, Manasagangotri}}</ref>
* Papers in Indian Sociolinguistics<ref name="Pattanayak1978">{{cite book|author=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|title=Papers in Indian Sociolinguistics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gs8JAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Central Institute of Indian Languages}}</ref>
* An Introduction to Tamil Script, Reading & Writing<ref name="PattanayakThirumalai1980">{{cite book|author1=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|author2=M. S. Thirumalai|title=An Introduction to Tamil Script, Reading & Writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZcAZAAAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Central Institute of Indian Languages}}</ref>
* Multilingualism and mother-tongue education<ref name="PattanayakIllich1981">{{cite book|author1=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|author2=Ivan Illich|title=Multilingualism and mother-tongue education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SL-eAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-561304-9}}</ref>
* Language Policy and Programmes<ref name="Pattanayak1971">{{cite book|author=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|title=Language Policy and Programmes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bkODrGJEFpcC|year=1971|publisher=Ministry of Education and Youth Services, Government of India}}</ref>
* Advanced Tamil Reader, Part 1<ref name="PattanayakThirumalai1974">{{cite book|author1=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|author2=M. S. Thirumalai|author3=K. Rangan|title=Advanced Tamil Reader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IXhkAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Central Institute of Indian Languages}}</ref>
* An Outline of Kumauni Grammar<ref name="AptePattanayak1967">{{cite book|author1=Mahadev L. Apte|author2=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|title=An Outline of Kumauni Grammar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lnEaAQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Duke University, Program in Comparative Studies on Southern Asia}}</ref>
* Language and Cultural Diversity: The Writings of Debi Prasanna Pattanayak, Volume 2<ref name="PattanayakArts">{{cite book|author1=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|author2=Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts|title=Language and Cultural Diversity: The Writings of Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|year=2014|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W3-eoAEACAAJ|publisher=Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-5395-8}}</ref>
* Language, Education, and Culture<ref name="Pattanayak1991">{{cite book|author=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|title=Language, Education, and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEWCfd_V1XAC|year=1991|publisher=Central Institute of Indian Languages}}</ref>
* A Controlled Historical Reconstruction of Oriya, Assamese, Bengali, and Hindi<ref name="Pattanayak1966">{{cite book|author=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|title=A Controlled Historical Reconstruction of Oriya, Assamese, Bengali, and Hindi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yecvAAAAIAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Mouton|isbn=9783111000657 }}</ref>
* Conversational Oriya<ref name="PattanayakDash1972">{{cite book|author1=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|author2=Gaganendranath Dash|title=Conversational Oriya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gs99QgAACAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Sulakshana Pattanayak}}</ref>
* Orissa, Oriya and the Multilingual Context<ref name="Pattanayak2003">{{cite book|author=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|title=Orissa, Oriya and the Multilingual Context|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wmvePAAACAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Orissa Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7586-072-8}}</ref>
* Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Britain and India<ref name="Pattanayak1987">{{cite book|author=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|title=Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Britain and India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GZ4pAAAACAAJ|year=1987|publisher=University of London Institute of Education|isbn=978-0-85473-270-8}}</ref>
* An Introduction Ti Tamil Script, Reading & Writing<ref name="PattanayakS.1980">{{cite book|author1=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|author2=Thirumalai M. S.|title=An Introduction Ti Tamil Script, Reading & Writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CZDqcQAACAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Central institute of Indian languages}}</ref>
* An Introduction to Tamil Script, Reading & Writing<ref name="PattanayakThirumalai1985">{{cite book|author1=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|author2=M. S. Thirumalai|title=An Introduction to Tamil Script, Reading & Writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5wsUnQEACAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Central Institute of Indian languages}}</ref>
* Rabīndra smaraṇīkā<ref name="Pattanayak1963">{{cite book|author=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|title=Rabīndra smaraṇīkā|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1XQRAQAAIAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Biśvabhāratī oḍiā sāhitya parishada}}</ref>
* Kabilipi<ref name="PattanayakMehera1957">{{cite book|author1=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|author2=Gaṅgādhara Mehera|title=Kabilipi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BHtoHQAACAAJ|year=1957|publisher=Biśva Bhāratī, Oḍiā Gabeshaṇā Bibhāga}}</ref>

== Honors ==
* Kalinga Sahitya Samman 2014<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://odishasuntimes.com/33816/first-kalinga-sahitya-samman-conferred-dr-debi-prasanna-patnaik/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140226090315/http://odishasuntimes.com/33816/first-kalinga-sahitya-samman-conferred-dr-debi-prasanna-patnaik/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=26 February 2014|title=First Kalinga Sahitya Samman conferred on Dr Debi Prasanna Patnaik | Sambad English|date=24 February 2014}}</ref>
* Tigiria Samman 2011<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mbctv.co.in/viewnews.php?news_id=4616 |title=Tigiria Deserves Recognition as Birthplace of Odissi: Subhas Chandra Pattanayak |access-date=7 January 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140226090215/http://www.mbctv.co.in/viewnews.php?news_id=4616 |archive-date=26 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://orissamatters.com/tag/dr-debi-prasanna-patnaik/|title=Dr.Debi Prasanna Patnaik}}</ref>
* Padma Shri, 1987<ref name=pdma/>
* PhD (Ravenshaw University)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.odishabook.com/Aticle/PhotoNews/2013/07/02/Noted-linguist-Debi-Prasanna-Pattanayak-being-conferred-the-honorary |title=Noted linguist Debi Prasanna Pattanayak being conferred the honorary | Photo News | OdishaBook |website=www.odishabook.com |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140226090231/http://www.odishabook.com/Aticle/PhotoNews/2013/07/02/Noted-linguist-Debi-Prasanna-Pattanayak-being-conferred-the-honorary |archive-date=26 February 2014 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>

== References ==
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