Santali Ol Chiki to Punjabi Gurmukhi Translator

Punjabi is primarily spoken in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. In India, it's predominantly spoken in the state of Punjab. In Pakistan, it's the most widely spoken language in the province of Punjab and several other areas.

Uses two major scripts: Gurmukhi, predominantly in India, and Shahmukhi, predominantly in Pakistan. Gurmukhi script includes characters like ਅ, ਆ, ਇ, ਈ, ਉ, ਊ, ਏ, ਐ, ਓ, ਔ, ਕ, ਖ, ਗ, ਘ, ਙ, ਚ, ਛ, ਜ, ਝ, ਞ, ਟ, ਠ, ਡ, ਢ, ਣ, ਤ, ਥ, ਦ, ਧ, ਨ, ਪ, ਫ, ਬ, ਭ, ਮ, ਯ, ਰ, ਲ, ਵ, ਸ਼, ਸ, ਹ. Shahmukhi script is a variant of the Persian script and includes letters predominantly used in Urdu.

Features 35 phonemes: 10 vowels and 25 consonants. Distinct tonal language with three tones: high, mid, low.

Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order predominates. Rich in inflections, particularly in verb conjugations to indicate tense, aspect, mood, and politeness.

Includes words from Persian, Arabic, English, and Hindi due to historical, religious, and modern influences.

Part of the Indo-European language family, within the Indo-Iranian branch.

Primarily uses the Gurmukhi script in India and the Shahmukhi script in Pakistan. Historically, Punjabi was also written using the Laṇḍā scripts.

Gurmukhi script was standardized by Guru Angad, the second Sikh Guru, in the 16th century. Shahmukhi is adapted from the Persian script and has been in use since the arrival of Islam in the region.

Approximately 125 million speakers worldwide, making it one of the ten most spoken languages globally.

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.