Karani script

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This article contains Odia text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Odia script.

Karani script (Odia: କରଣି ଅକ୍ଷର) (also Chata script ଛଟା ଅକ୍ଷର) was a cursive/calligraphic style variant of Odia script^[1]^[2]^[3] developed by the Karana (କରଣ) community/ the scribes (professional writer-class) of the Odia royal courts. It was used in the pre-Independence Orissa (Odisha) region in South Asia and was primarily used by the Karana community who were working for administrative purposes, documentation and keeping records in the royal courts of the Odia princely states (Orissa Tributary States). The name Karani is derived from the metal stylus, Karani that was used for writing on palm leaf.^[4]^[5]

Use in Odia script[edit]

Karani diacritic remnant in Odia script
Vowel Letter	Diacritic forms
For the vowel ଇ (short i), the standard Odia diacritic form is ି. Eg- For consonant କ (ka) - କି (ki) But for these consonants - ଖ (kha), ଥ (tha), ଧ (dha), the equivalent ଇ diacritic from Karani script is also used.	ଖି (khi) ଥି (thi) ଧି (dhi)