Chhattisgarhi is a Central Indo-Aryan(Indic) language & a part of the Eastern Hindi branch. It has 5 regional dialect clusters & 9 dialects.
It is also known as Laria in Odisha.
In Odia script:
Chhattisgarhi- ଛତିଶଗଡ଼ି
Laria- ଲରିଆ
It is primarily written in Devanagari script, but the eastern dialect spoken along Odisha-Chhattisgarh border along like Bhulia & Kalanga dialects in Odisha are also written in Odia script(present usage continues ad-hoc/informally).
The Alphabet, David Diringer, 1948, p-365
Sample text- Bhulia dialect of Chhattisgarhi
Linguistic Survey of India- Grierson, Vol-VI 1904, p-255-257
Sample text- Kalanga dialect of Chhattisgarhi
Linguistic Survey of India- Grierson, Vol-VI 1904, p-251-254
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Odia merchants(Sadhabas) who traded across SE & East Asia created institutions called Guilds(Srenis), the cooperative corporatised merchant org & were financed by temples.
They operated under contracts(Samaya) & code of conduct(Banaju-dharma).
The traders were known by various terms across the regions of
Tri-Kalinga.