Santali Ol Chiki to Meiteilon Manipuri Translator

Primarily spoken in Manipur (India), with communities in Assam, Tripura, Myanmar, and Bangladesh.

Uses Meitei Mayek script with 27 letters: ꯀ, ꯁ, ꯂ, ꯃ, ꯄ, ꯅ, ꯆ, ꯇ, ꯈ, ꯉ, ꯊ, ꯋ, ꯌ, ꯍ, ꯎ, ꯏ, ꯐ, ꯑ, ꯒ, ꯓ, ꯔ, ꯕ, ꯖ, ꯗ, ꯘ, ꯙ, ꯚ

Features 5 vowel phonemes, aspirated/unaspirated consonant distinctions, and tone patterns that affect meaning in some contexts.

Subject-object-verb (SOV) word order. Agglutinative morphology with complex verbal system and extensive use of particles for grammatical relations.

Contains loanwords from Sanskrit, Bengali, Hindi, English, and other neighboring languages due to historical and cultural contacts.

Part of the Sino-Tibetan language family, specifically the Tibeto-Burman branch, though its exact classification within the family is debated.

Uses traditional Meitei Mayek script, also written in Bengali script historically and Devanagari in some contexts.

Ancient Meitei Mayek script dates back to 11th century, fell into disuse, revived in 20th-21st centuries and now officially promoted.

Approximately 1.8 million speakers worldwide, primarily in Manipur where it's the official language.

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.