Write a letter of constitution language of santhali in india
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Until the nineteenth century, Santali remained an oral language and all shared knowledge was transmitted by word of mouth from generation to generation. The interest of Europeans in the study of Indian languages led to the first efforts at documenting the Santali language. Bengali and Roman scripts were first used to write Santali before the 1860s by European anthropologists, folklorists and missionaries like Campbell, Skrefsrud and Bodding. Their efforts resulted in Santali dictionaries, versions of folk tales, and the study of the morphology, syntax and phonetic structure of the language.
The Ol Chiki script was created for Santali by Mayurbhanj poet Raghunath Murmu in 1925 and first publicized in 1939.[4][5]
Olchiki as Santali Script is widely accepted among Santal Communities, however presently in West Bengal, Odisha & Jharkhand, the Ol chiki is the official script for Santali literature & language.[6][7] However, users from Bangladesh use Eastern Nagari.