Santali language

Santali is a language in the Munda subfamily of Austro-Asiatic, related to Ho and Mundari. It is spoken by about six million people in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. Most of its speakers live in India, in the states of Jharkhand, Assam, Bihar, Orissa, Tripura, and West Bengal. It has its own alphabet, known as Ol Cemet', but literacy is very low, between 10 and 30%. Santali is spoken by the Santhals.

External links

Ethnologue report on Santali (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SNT)
English-Santali/Santali-English dictionaries (http://wesanthals.tripod.com/santals/id54.html)

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Categories: Austroasiatic languages | Languages of India | Languages of Bangladesh

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