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Ol Chiki Script

Ol Chiki Script

Surhone, Lambert M.
Tennoe, Mariam T.
Henssonow, Susan F.

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ISBN10: 6133575697
ISBN13: 9786133575691
Publisher: Vdm Verlag Dr Mller Ag & Co Kg
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 9.02 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ol Chiki script, also known as Ol Cemet (language of writing), Ol Ciki, Ol (and sometimes as the Santali alphabet), was created in 1925 by Raghunath Murmu for the Santali language. Previously, Santali had been written with the Bengali alphabet, Oriya alphabet, or Latin alphabet, on the rare occasions it was written at all. But because Santali is not an Indo-Aryan language (like most other languages in the north of India), Indic scripts did not have letters for all of Santali's phonemes, especially its stop consonants and vowels, which made writing the language accurately in an unmodified Indic script difficult. The detailed analysis was given by Dr. Byomkes Chakrabarti in his 'Comparative Study of Santali and Bengali'. Missionaries (first of all Paul Olaf Bodding, a Norwegian) brought the Latin alphabet, which was better at representing some Santali stops, but vowels were still problematic. Unlike most Indic scripts, which are derived from Brahmi, Ol Chiki is a true alphabet, not an abugida, with vowels given equal representation with consonants.

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