Countries
India
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
-
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Munda Language
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3052
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
611
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2141
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Henda ho
nomoskaar
Thank You
Adi Johar
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
subhoraattri
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
subha abeli
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
suprobhaat
Please
দয়া করে
anugroha kori
Sorry
দুঃখিত
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
Hariau
biḍai
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Mahali
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
India
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
-
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
-
Assam
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million15.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
santal
assamais
German Name
Santali
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Assamese people
Origin
20th century
7th century A.D
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Santali
Assamese
Language Position
4165
1
120
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Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Signed Assamese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
asm
ISO 639 2/B
sat
asm
ISO 639 3
sat
asm
ISO 639 6
sat
asm
Glottocode
sant1410
assa1263
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-w
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-