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Language Comparison: Santali Ol Chiki vs Luo
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Aspect | Santali Ol Chiki | Luo |
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Family | Austroasiatic, Munda | Nilo-Saharan |
Speakers | Approximately 7.6 million | Approximately 5 million |
Features | 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 | A Western Nilotic language spoken predominantly by the Luo people in Kenya and Tanzania |
Countries | India (Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Assam), Bangladesh, and Nepal | Kenya, Tanzania |
Writing System | Ol Chiki script (invented in 1925 by Pandit Raghunath Murmu) | Latin script |
Tonal | Yes, has three tones (high, mid, low) | No |
Grammatical Cases | No strict cases, uses postpositions | No, but uses verb inflections and prepositions to indicate grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Proto-Munda | Part of the larger Nilotic group, related to languages like Dinka and Nuer |
Loanwords | From Bengali, Hindi, and English | From English and Swahili, especially in technical and administrative terminology |
Dialects | Includes Northern Santali, Eastern Santali, and Southern Santali, with variations in phonology and vocabulary | Includes several regional variants such as those spoken in Nyanza Province in Kenya and northern Tanzania |
Alphabets | 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 | 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 |
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