Countries
India
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Somalia
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Munda Language
Somali Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3034
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Henda ho
akkam
Thank You
Adi Johar
Galatoomi
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
দয়া করে
Maaloo
Sorry
দুঃখিত
naa dhiisi
Bye
Hariau
Nagayattii!
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialect 1
Mahali
Borana
Where They Speak
India
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Orma
Where They Speak
-
Kenya
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Wata
Where They Speak
-
Kenya
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
117
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.36 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million35.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
santal
galla
German Name
Santali
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Oromos
Origin
20th century
16
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
4191
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
orm
ISO 639 2/B
sat
orm
ISO 639 3
sat
orm
ISO 639 6
sat
orm
Glottocode
sant1410
nucl1736
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-