Gujarati to Santali Ol Chiki Translator

Spoken by the Santal people in India (primarily in Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar), as well as small communities in Bangladesh and Nepal.

Uses the Ol Chiki script (also called Ol Cemetʼ), created by Pandit Raghunath Murmu in the 1920s specifically for Santali. Written left to right.

Santali is non‑tonal. It features aspirated and unaspirated stops, a full set of nasals (including retroflex), and also has both short and long vowels.

Follows Subject‑Object‑Verb (SOV) word order. It is an agglutinative language, using extensive suffixes to mark case, number, person, tense, aspect, and mood.

Includes loanwords from neighboring Indo‑Aryan languages (Bengali, Odia Hindi) and from English.

A member of the Munda sub‑branch of the Austroasiatic family.

Traditionally oral; the Ol Chiki script was deliberately invented to write Santali in a way that was native and culturally appropriate.

The script was devised by Pandit Raghunath Murmu in 1925. It replaced Roman and Bengali-based orthographies and has since become a symbol of Santal cultural identity. It is now taught in schools and used in media and literature.

Approximately 7 million speakers, making it one of the largest Munda languages.

Primarily spoken in the Indian state of Gujarat, as well as in the union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Significant Gujarati-speaking populations are also found in Mumbai and other metropolitan areas of India, and there's a large diaspora worldwide, especially in the UK, USA, and Canada.

Uses the Gujarati script, which is an abugida consisting of vowels and consonants. Characters include ક, ખ, ગ, ઘ, ચ, છ, જ, ઝ, ટ, ઠ, ડ, ઢ, ણ, ત, થ, દ, ધ, ન, પ, ફ, બ, ભ, મ, ય, ર, લ, વ, શ, ષ, સ, હ.

Gujarati features 34 phonemes (26 consonants and 8 vowels) and is known for its variety of consonant sounds, including voiced, voiceless, aspirated, and unaspirated sounds.

Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order is typical. The language has a rich system of verb conjugation and noun declension, with markers for gender, number, and case on nouns, and tense, aspect, mood, and person on verbs.

Contains loanwords from Persian, Arabic, Portuguese, and English, reflecting the historical trade relationships and colonial history of Gujarat.

Part of the Indo-Aryan group within the larger Indo-European language family.

Primarily uses the Gujarati script, which evolved from the Devanagari script and is used exclusively for Gujarati.

The Gujarati script was formalized in the 19th century, but it has historical roots stretching back to the 11th century. It became distinct from other scripts in its family through gradual modifications.

Approximately 55.5 million speakers as of the latest data, making it one of the major languages of India.