Open educational resource · 2018
Santali language resources
For Santali speakers and learners who want to read, type and write Santali online. Type designers and linguists may also find it useful.
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This page was first published in August 2018, when the Santali Wikipedia went live.
Santali (ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ) is spoken mostly in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Tripura and West Bengal, and in Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. The 2011 Census of India counted 7,368,192 speakers. Ol Chiki (ᱚᱞ ᱪᱤᱠᱤ), also called Ol Cemet', is the main script for Santali. Raghunath Murmu created it in 1925. Santali has also been written in Devanagari, Bengali and Odia.
Santali is one of the few Adivasi languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. Schools in Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal teach it. This page lists free resources for reading, typing and writing Santali in Ol Chiki. If Ol Chiki shows as empty boxes on your screen, install a font from Read and type and reload the page.
Members of O Foundation helped build Santali input tools and typefaces, and helped grow the community of Santali Wikipedia editors.
Read and type
- Noto Sans Ol Chiki
A free Ol Chiki font for phones and computers. Registry of Type Design record.
- Guru Gomke
A free Ol Chiki font. Registry of Type Design record.
- Wesanthals Ol Chiki fonts
Older fonts (Classic, Old, Optimum, Regular, Royal and Usara) that do not use Unicode. Convert text typed in them with the Santali Unicode Converter.
- Sarjom Baha input method
A phonetic keyboard for typing Ol Chiki on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The link shows how to turn it on. See the key layout.
- Guru Gomke input tool
Type Ol Chiki on Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Gboard
Android keyboard by Google that supports Santali.
- Multiling O Keyboard
Android keyboard with Santali in Ol Chiki.
- Santali Unicode Converter
Converts text typed in older Ol Chiki fonts into Unicode, so that it shows correctly on any device.
- Ol Chiki Unicode chart
Every Ol Chiki character with its code point. Useful for type designers.
- Ol Chiki on the Registry of Type Design
Typefaces for Ol Chiki and the people who designed them.
Write and publish
- Santali Wikipedia
The Wikipedia in Santali, live since August 2018. Anyone can write and edit articles.
- Ol Chiki Tech
A blog with news on technology for Santali.
- Santali News
News site in Santali.
- Santali Times
News site in Santali.
- Khobor Kagoj
A Santali newspaper and its website.
- Ayo Arang
Online magazine by Santali women writers.
- Birmali
Online magazine of Santali writing.
- We Santhals
A website on Santali language, people and culture.
Learn
- Sarala (Tribhasi) Bhasha Sikshyana Pustika
A Santali, Odia and English learning book and word list (PDF).
- Santali romanization table
How to write Ol Chiki in Latin letters (PDF).
- UGC NET Santali syllabus, December 2013
Syllabus for the national university teaching exam, in Devanagari (PDF).
Archives and recordings
- Santali-language media on Wikimedia Commons
Freely licensed audio and video in Santali.
- Santali collection, LU Humanities Lab Archive
- Santali recordings
Audio recordings of Bible verses in Santali.
Sources
Credits and acknowledgements
Thank you, Anwesh Pati, for your inputs on this page.
- Ramjit Tudu
Santali Wikipedia editor and a founding member of Ol Chiki Tech.
- Anwesh Pati
Gave inputs for this page.
Use these resources well
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