Santalī

E199649

Santalī is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily by the Santal people in eastern India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Santal 2
Santalī canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language
Munda language
language
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Ho language
Mundari
hasAlternativeName Santhali
surface form: Santali language

Santhali
hasDialects Khortha-influenced Santalī
Malto-influenced Santalī
Santhali
surface form: Manbhum Santalī
hasEthnicity Santalī self-linksurface differs
surface form: Santal
hasGlottocode sant1410
hasNativeName Santhali
surface form: Santali
hasOfficialStatusIn Assam
Jharkhand
Orissa
surface form: Odisha

West Bengal
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
tone-like pitch distinctions
hasScript Ol Chiki script
surface form: Ol Chiki
hasStandardForm standard Santalī
ISO639-2 sat
ISO639-3 sat
languageFamily Austroasiatic
recognizedAs scheduled language of India
region Assam
Bihar
Jharkhand
Orissa
surface form: Odisha

West Bengal
eastern India
spokenBy Santal people
spokenIn People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
surface form: Bangladesh

Bhutan
India
Nepal
subfamily Munda
typology agglutinative language
usedFor folksongs
oral literature
primary education in some regions
religious rituals
writingSystem Bengali script
Devanagari script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Odia script
Ol Chiki script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Santhali hasAlternativeName Santalī
Santalī hasEthnicity Santalī self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Santal
Ol Chiki script associatedEthnicGroup Santalī
this entity surface form: Santal