What means
No. OO is the Romanized label for one letter. The Ol Onal chart gives its sound as /o/, a single Bhumij vowel—not two successive sounds.
Why was Ol Onal created for Bhumij?
It was designed to write Bhumij, a language of eastern India. Mahendra Nath Sardar began developing Ol Onal around 1981; the Odisha-based Adim Bhumij Samaj selected it in a 1992 competition among three proposed scripts. The name pairs words translated as “draw” and “shape or diagram.”
Did Ol Onal include lowercase letters?
Yes, as a planned lowercase set. It was called Galang Onal. By 2022, teaching and printed materials used the capital series, called Ol Onal.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type
𞗔\1E5D4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.