August 14 , 2018
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- Santhali has become the first Indian tribal language to get a Wikipedia edition in its own script.
- The home page of the Santhali edition of Wikipedia carries an article on Raghunath Murmu, who created the Ol Chiki script.
Santhali Language
- It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Indian constitution.
- It is written in Ol Chiki script and spoken by 6.4 million people, according to the 2001 census, in India alone.
- Major speakers are from Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Assam. It is also spoken in Bangladesh and Nepal.
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