Did you Know?
Pandit Raghunath Murmu invented the Ol-Chiki script in 1925 when he was just 20 years old.
The reason, Ol-Chiki looks different from the Indic Scripts( Bengali/Devanagari/Oriya) or the Roman script is that it is not derived from any of those. In fact, to create the script, Pandit Raghunath Murmu took inspiration from mother nature.
From time immemorial, nature has been an integral part for the people of Santal Tribe. For this reason, Ol-Chiki script was created as an approximation of various animate and inanimate objects or sound from nature. For example, the word /AT/ means Earth and the shape of letter /AT/ is derived from the round shape of Earth. Similarly /UD/ means mushroom and so looks the shape of the letter /UD/.
If you always wanted to learn Ol-Chiki but never got enough motivation to do so, then try it with this pdf, the visual cues would help you remember and learn Ol-Chiki much easier and faster.
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Ol Chiki Pronunciation video:
Video Credit: SANTALI RANARH