Santali

Now of all of these languages the only one that cannot be displayed at all using the built in fonts in Windows 7 is Santali, which is written with the Ol Chiki script.

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Is it not a fact like the daylight that the oppressed Santali, Bhumij, Urav, Munda, Ho Adivasis and other non-Adivasis have rallied en masse behind our Party that has been leading their struggles for an exploitation free Jharkhand?

CPI(Maoist) - An Open Letter To Sudhir Mahato, Dy. CM of Jharkhand Abhay N 2007

Santali is an agglutinative language of great regularity and complexity but when the Santals come in contact with races speaking an Aryan language it is apt to become corrupted with foreign idioms.

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

Santali furnishing the largest number of variants (six, in all).

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

To be perfectly sure that neither language nor ideas should in any way be influenced by contact with a European mind he arranged for most of them to be written out in Santali, principally by a Christian convert named Sagram Murmu, at present living at Mohulpahari in the

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

Sir G. G.ierson's account of the two dialects Santali and Mundari shows that they closely resemble each other and differ only in minor particulars.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

The name Kol, as already seen, is probably a form of the Santali _har_, a man.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

Strictly speaking, in Santali there is no real verb as distinct from the other classes of words.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

[489] Of Mundari he says: "Aspirated letters are used as in Santali, the semi-consonants are apparently pronounced in the same way as in Santali; genders and numbers are the same, the personal pronouns are the same, the inflexion of verbs is mainly the same."

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

In the vocabulary of common words of Mundari and Santali given by Colonel Dalton [491] a large proportion of the words are the same.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894