Santali Ol Chiki to Bhojpuri Translator

Primarily spoken in the northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and significant parts of Jharkhand. It is also spoken in Nepal, Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and South Africa among the diaspora communities.

Uses the Devanagari script in India and the Kaithi script historically. The typical alphabet includes अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ, क, ख, ग, घ, च, छ, ज, झ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, श, ष, स, ह.

Features a set of 10 vowels and a robust set of consonants, with distinctions between aspirated and unaspirated sounds.

Subject-object-verb (SOV) order predominates. Utilizes postpositions rather than prepositions, and verbs are inflected for tense, aspect, mood, and honorifics.

Includes words from Hindi, Urdu, Persian, English, and other regional languages due to historical and modern influences.

Part of the Indo-European language family, under the Indo-Iranian group.

Primarily uses the Devanagari script in contemporary settings, although the Kaithi script was historically prevalent.

Transitioned from Kaithi to Devanagari script, especially in the 20th century as Devanagari became more standardized across Hindi-speaking regions.

Approximately 50 million speakers, making it one of the most spoken languages in India and significant in diaspora communities worldwide.

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.