![]() Where Oriya is the lingua franca, however, that language’s script was chosen, which is entirely different. Where Hindi or Nepali are more common, they opted for Devanagari, which is related to, but differs from the Bengali alphabet. Where most people speak Bengali, Santals used the Bengali alphabet. Typically, people opted for the scripts that were predominant in the region. This alphabet, of course, has been used in many parts of Europe since the days of the Roman Empire.ĭ+C Development and Cooperation e-Paper >Įducation began to spread among Santals, and was not only driven by Christian missionaries. ![]() In the 1890s, Christian missionaries found it helpful to write in Santali. It is an Austro-Asiatic language that is related to Vietnamese and Khmer, but not to the Indo-European languages prevalent in our part of South Asia. Santali, for example, has survived and evolved over the millennia in oral tradition. Our tribes are outside the Hindu caste system and have been marginalised historically. ![]() More than 10 million people belong to Santal tribes in India’s eastern states as well as in Bangladesh and Nepal. | Read the full article by Boro Baski (3,3 MB) >Īmong South Asian Adivasis, we are the largest homogenous group. Some argue that this great variety does not help the community’s development. Today, seven different alphabets are used to write in it. Santali is one of India’s many Adivasi languages. Including Education and literacy, Health and nutrition & Ethnobotany
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