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| | Ol Chiki script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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 India), Indic scripts didn't have letters for all of Santali's phonemes, especially its stop consonants and vowels, which made writing the language accurately in an unmodified Indic script difficult. |
 | | 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."[1] It is written from left to right. |
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