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Language Comparison: Afar vs Santali Ol Chiki
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Aspect | Afar | Santali Ol Chiki |
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Family | Afro-Asiatic | Austroasiatic, Munda |
Speakers | Approximately 2.7 million | Approximately 7.6 million |
Features | Spoken by the Afar people in the Horn of Africa, notable for its Cushitic roots | An Austroasiatic language with a rich oral tradition, extensive use of affixes, and three main lexical tones; Ol Chiki is the unique script created for Santali |
Countries | Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti | India (Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Assam), Bangladesh, and Nepal |
Writing System | Latin script, previously used Arabic script | Ol Chiki script (invented in 1925 by Pandit Raghunath Murmu) |
Tonal | No | Yes, has three tones (high, mid, low) |
Grammatical Cases | No, but has extensive use of suffixes to indicate case functions | No strict cases, uses postpositions |
Derived From | Part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family | Proto-Munda |
Loanwords | From Arabic, Italian, and other local languages | From Bengali, Hindi, and English |
Dialects | There are variations but not distinctly categorized into widely recognized dialects | Includes Northern Santali, Eastern Santali, and Southern Santali, with variations in phonology and vocabulary |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z | ᱚ, ᱛ, ᱜ, ᱝ, ᱞ, ᱟ, ᱠ, ᱡ, ᱢ, ᱣ, ᱤ, ᱥ, ᱦ, ᱧ, ᱨ, ᱩ, ᱪ, ᱫ, ᱬ, ᱭ, ᱮ, ᱯ, ᱰ, ᱱ, ᱲ, ᱳ, ᱴ, ᱵ, ᱶ, ᱷ |
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