Ol Chiki Script

Recently, a professor in the Santali language at the Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University in Purulia, West Bengal, translated the Constitution of India for the first time in Santali in the Ol Chiki script.

About Ol Chiki Script: This script is also known as Ol Cemet’, Ol script, Ol ciki Script and also Ol.

• In Santali, Ol means writing and Cemet’ means learning.
• ‘Ol Cemet’ is the title of the book, written by Pandit Raghunath Murmu for teaching the Ol Chiki to the beginners (primer).
• Ol Chiki is alphabetic, and does not share any of the syllabic properties of the other Indic scripts.
• It is used for writing Santali which belongs to the Munda group languages of the Austro-Asiatric family.
• It contains 30 letters and five basic diacritics and has 6 basic vowels and additional three vowels are generated using Gahla Tudag.