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Language Comparison: Tongan vs Santali Ol Chiki
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Aspect | Tongan | Santali Ol Chiki |
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Family | Austronesian, Polynesian | Austroasiatic, Munda |
Speakers | Approximately 187,000 | Approximately 7.6 million |
Features | 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 | 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 | Tonga, with communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States | India (Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Assam), Bangladesh, and Nepal |
Writing System | Latin script | Ol Chiki script (invented in 1925 by Pandit Raghunath Murmu) |
Tonal | No | Yes, has three tones (high, mid, low) |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses word order and particles for grammatical relationships | No strict cases, uses postpositions |
Derived From | Proto-Polynesian | Proto-Munda |
Loanwords | From English, Samoan, and other Polynesian languages | From Bengali, Hindi, and English |
Dialects | Primarily homogeneous, though some regional variation exists in informal speech across Tonga’s islands | Includes Northern Santali, Eastern Santali, and Southern Santali, with variations in phonology and vocabulary |
Alphabets | A, E, F, H, I, K, L, M, N, NG, O, P, S, T, U, V | 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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