User:Rocky 734/sandbox/Santali language
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Santali (Ol Chiki: ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ), also known as Santhali, is the most widely-spoken language of the Munda subfamily of the Austroasiatic languages, related to Ho and Mundari, spoken mainly in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Tripura and West Bengal.[4]
Santali | |
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ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ | |
Native to | India, Bangladesh |
Ethnicity | Santal |
Native speakers | 7.6 million (2011 census[1])[2] |
Dialects |
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Ol Chiki script, Devanagari, Bengali-Assamese script[3], Roman script, Odia alphabet | |
Official status | |
Official language in | India |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | sat |
ISO 639-3 | Either:sat – Santalimjx – Mahali |
Glottolog | sant1410 Santalimaha1291 Mahali |
Santali is among the major 22 languages of India, written in 13 different script among 720 different dilact spoken in India.[5]
It is one of the official language of India recognized as per the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution.[6] It is spoken by around 7.6 million people in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, making it the third most-spoken Austroasiatic language after Vietnamese and Khmer.[4]
Before the development of Ol Chiki by Guru Gomke in 1925, Santali was written in Roman, Bengali and rarely in Odiya language script. Ol Chiki is a unique script developed by Gomke, sharing none of the syllabic properties of the other Indic scripts.[note 1]