Santali Ol Chiki to Maithili Translator

Primarily spoken in Bihar and Jharkhand (India) and southeastern Nepal, with communities in other parts of India.

Uses Devanagari script and traditionally Mithilakshar script: अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ, क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, श, ष, स, ह

Features aspirated/unaspirated consonant distinctions, retroflex consonants, and complex vowel system typical of Indo-Aryan languages.

Subject-object-verb (SOV) word order. Complex verbal morphology with extensive honorific system and case marking patterns.

Contains loanwords from Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, and increasingly English.

Part of the Indo-European family, specifically the Indo-Aryan branch, closely related to Bengali and other eastern Indo-Aryan languages.

Uses Devanagari script officially, traditionally written in Mithilakshar script specific to Maithili.

Historically used Mithilakshar script, Devanagari adopted for modern official and educational use, rich literary tradition dating back centuries.

Approximately 34 million speakers worldwide, primarily in Bihar (India) and southeastern Nepal.

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.