Santali Ol Chiki to Sindhi Translator

Primarily spoken in Sindh province (Pakistan) and parts of India (especially Rajasthan and Gujarat), with diaspora communities worldwide.

Uses Arabic script with 52 letters including additional letters for Sindhi sounds: ا، ب، ٻ، ت، ٿ، ث، ج، جھ، ڄ، چ، ڇ، ح، خ، د، ڏ، ذ، ر، ڙ، ز، س، ش، ص، ض، ط، ظ، ع، غ، ف، ق، ک، گ، ڳ، ل، م، ن، ڻ، و، ه، ھ، ي، ي۾

Features distinctive implosive consonants (ٻ, ڄ, ڏ, ڳ), retroflex sounds, and complex consonant system with 46 consonant phonemes.

Subject-object-verb (SOV) word order. Ergative-absolutive alignment in past tense, complex verbal morphology and case system.

Contains loanwords from Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Urdu, and increasingly English in modern contexts.

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

Uses modified Arabic script in Pakistan, Devanagari script in India.

Historically used various scripts including Arabic, developed standardized Arabic-based orthography in Pakistan and Devanagari in India.

Approximately 25-30 million speakers worldwide, with majority in Pakistan and significant population in India.

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.