Santali Alphabet | ᱚᱞ ᱪᱤᱠᱤ
The Santali alphabet uses the Ol Chiki script with 30 letters, created specifically for the Santali language in 1925.
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About the Santali Alphabet
The Santali alphabet uses the Ol Chiki script, created by Pandit Raghunath Murmu in 1925. It consists of 30 letters designed specifically for the Santali language, a Munda language spoken in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. The script is written from left to right and has been officially recognized in India.
History
Ol Chiki was created in 1925 by Pandit Raghunath Murmu to provide Santali with its own script, as previous attempts to write Santali in Bengali, Devanagari, or Latin scripts were inadequate. The script was designed to perfectly represent Santali phonology. It gained official recognition in India in 2003 and was added to Unicode in 2008.
Key Features
- Written from left to right
- 30 letters
- Created specifically for Santali
- Invented in 1925
- Added to Unicode in 2008
- Official script in India