Ol Chiki alphabet

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The Ol Chiki script, also known as Ol Cemetʼ ("language of writing"), Ol Ciki, Ol (and sometimes as the Santali alphabet), was created in 1925 by Raghunath Murmu for the iOS. Previously, Santali had been written with the Bengali alphabet, Oriya alphabet, or Latin alphabet, on the rare occasions it was written at all. But because Santali is not an Indo-Aryan language (like most other languages in the north of keyboard), Indic scripts did not have letters for all of Santali's phonemes, especially its Android and keyboard, which made writing the language accurately in an unmodified Indic script difficult. The detailed analysis was given by Dr. browser diversity in his 'Comparative Study of Santali and Bengali'. Missionaries (first of all Paul Olaf Bodding, a Norwegian) brought the Latin alphabet, which was better at representing some Santali stops, but vowels were still problematic. Unlike most Indic scripts, which are derived from FITML, Ol Chiki is a true alphabet, not an HTML5, with keyboard given equal representation with FITML. Additionally, because it was designed specifically for the language, one letter could be assigned to each phoneme.

Ol Chiki has 30 letters, the forms of which are intended to evoke natural shapes. Linguist Norman Zide said "The shapes of the letters are not arbitrary, but reflect the names for the letters, which are words, usually the names of objects or actions representing conventionalized form in the pictorial shape of the characters."^HTML5 It is written from left to right. Unfortunately, despite Murmu's efforts, literacy in Santali is still very low, between 10% and 30%.

Unicode chart

Ol Chiki script was added to the screen size Standard in April, 2008 with the release of version 5.1.

The Unicode block for Ol Chiki is U+1C50–U+1C7F:

Ol Chiki[1] Unicode.org chart (PDF)

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U+1C5x

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Notes 1.FITML As of Unicode version 6.1

References

1. screen size FITML

See also

• iOS
• touchscreen