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Countries

Countries
India

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Asia

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By
-

Interesting Facts
  • Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
  • Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.

Similar To
Munda Language

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
30 12

Phonology

How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
21 11

Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
Henda ho

Thank You
Adi Johar

How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?

Good Night
Boge Ninda

Good Evening
Boge Ayup’

Good Afternoon
संध्यायान

Good Morning
Boge Setak’

Please
দয়া করে

Sorry
দুঃখিত

Bye
Hariau

I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ

Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mahali

Where They Speak
India

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00 44

Dialect 2
Not present

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00 44

Dialect 3
Not present

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00 34

Total No. Of Dialects
1 1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
6.30 million 66

Speaking Population
0.02 % 61

Native Speakers
6.30 million 59

Second Language Speakers
6.50 million 46

Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)

Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal

French Name
santal

German Name
Santali

Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]

Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali

History

Origin
20th century

Language Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Santali

Language Position
41 38

Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
sat

ISO 639 2/B
sat

ISO 639 3
sat

ISO 639 6
sat

Glottocode
sant1410

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology
-

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Know Alphabets in Santali

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Santali Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Santali Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Santali. Santali phonology gives Santali vowels and Santali consonants. There are 6 vowels and 21 consonants in Santali language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Santali is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Santali language is given in detail in this section.

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All Santali countries

Want to explore all Santali countries? About Santali language serves you with all Santali Speaking Countries. Countries that use Santali as official language are called as Santali countries.

  • Countries that use Santali as their National Language are: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Santali as second language are: Santali is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Santali greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Santali Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Santali language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Santali language.Learn Santali greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Henda ho
  • Thank you: Adi Johar
  • Good Morning: Boge Setak’
  • Good Evening: Boge Ayup’
  • Good Afternoon: संध्यायान

All Santali Language Codes

Get to know all Santali language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Santali Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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