Santali Ol Chiki to Kokborok Translator

Primarily spoken in the Indian state of Tripura and parts of neighboring Bangladesh.

Uses both Latin and Bengali scripts; Roman script is increasingly favored in education.

Non-tonal; syllable structure is typically CV; aspirated and unaspirated stops are contrastive.

Generally SOV word order; agglutinative structure; uses postpositions and markers for case and tense.

Includes Bengali, Sanskrit, and English borrowings.

Sino-Tibetan family, Tibeto-Burman branch.

Uses Latin and Bengali scripts; efforts underway to standardize Roman script use.

Traditionally oral; written forms gained prominence in the 20th century with Roman script promotion.

Around 1 million speakers.

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.