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Language Comparison: Santali Ol Chiki vs Tongan
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Aspect | Santali Ol Chiki | Tongan |
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Family | Austroasiatic, Munda | Austronesian, Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 7.6 million | Approximately 187,000 |
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 Polynesian language with VSO (verb-subject-object) word order, characterized by its limited phonemic inventory and lack of consonant clusters; spoken mainly in Tonga |
Countries | India (Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Assam), Bangladesh, and Nepal | Tonga, with communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States |
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 word order and particles for grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Proto-Munda | Proto-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From Bengali, Hindi, and English | From English, Samoan, and other Polynesian languages |
Dialects | Includes Northern Santali, Eastern Santali, and Southern Santali, with variations in phonology and vocabulary | Primarily homogeneous, though some regional variation exists in informal speech across Tonga’s islands |
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, E, F, H, I, K, L, M, N, NG, O, P, S, T, U, V |
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