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Language Comparison: Santali Ol Chiki vs Tok Pisin
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Aspect | Santali Ol Chiki | Tok Pisin |
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Family | Austroasiatic, Munda | Creole, English-based |
Speakers | Approximately 7.6 million | Approximately 4 million fluent speakers (including second-language speakers) |
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 widely spoken creole with simplified grammar and vocabulary influenced by English, local languages, and German; used as a lingua franca in Papua New Guinea |
Countries | India (Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Assam), Bangladesh, and Nepal | Papua New Guinea |
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, uses simple subject-verb-object order and particles to indicate tense and aspect |
Derived From | Proto-Munda | English, with influences from German, Malay, and various indigenous languages of Papua New Guinea |
Loanwords | From Bengali, Hindi, and English | Primarily from English, with some influence from German and indigenous languages |
Dialects | Includes Northern Santali, Eastern Santali, and Southern Santali, with variations in phonology and vocabulary | Relatively homogeneous, with some regional variations influenced by local languages across Papua New Guinea |
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, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y |
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