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Front Matter
Ol Chiki
Alphabet created in 1925 by Indian scholar Pandit Raghunath Murmu for the Santali language.
Alphabet created in 1925 by Indian scholar Pandit Raghunath Murmu for the Santali language. Officially listed in India's Eighth Schedule, symbolizing the identity of ~8 million Santali people. Murmu spent 20 years studying existing writing systems before creating it. The Santali people led the largest indigenous rebellion against British colonialism in 1855 (the Santhal Rebellion), and this script is the modern symbol of that spirit of resistance.
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The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+1C50–U+1C7F
Total signs48
Unicode Blocks
Not in Unicode
No Unicode block data available for this script.
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로 표기.
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System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
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