Bringing Ol Chiki to the digital world@subhapa and @anexasajoop

Typography Day, Bangalore February 27, 2016

Ol Chikiscript

Santalilanguage

~ 6 million speakers in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan

Ethnologue https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sat

In 2003, Santali was added to the list of languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution

Austroasiatic languages

Mon-Khmer/Eastern Munda/Western

SantaliMundariHoSoraJuangetc.

Santal is believed to be a corruption of the common Bengali name for their tribe, saotal or saotar.

Grierson, G. A. (1906) Linguistic Survey of India, Vol IV. Munda & Dravidian Languages

Until the 19th century, Santali was an oral language.

Ghose, Arun (2010) Santali: A look into Santal Morphology, Gyan Publishing House (New Delhi)

American Baptist missionary Rev. Jeremiah Phillips came to India in 1936.A Santali Primer (1845) Sequel to A Santali Primer (1850) An Introduction to the Santal Language (1852);

From Google Books

Not equipped to represent checked consonants. Traditionally, no character to represent the glottal stop. Don’t have sufficient vowel characters to represent Santali vowels.

No Indic scripts were adequate for writing Santali—

Neither was Latin.

Pandit Raghunath Murmu began working on creating a script “Ol Chiki” specifically for Santali in the 1920s.

The work took about 20 years to complete.

In April 2008, Ol Chiki is added to the Unicode standard.

Access to Knowledge programmeCenter for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore

Catalysing the growth of the free and open knowledge movement in South Asia and in Indic languages

Can a typeface turn the fate of an indigenous language around?

The power of a free and open license“All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved”

http://www.allindiaaseca.org/books/raghunath-murmu.html

Printing and handwriting forms of the Ol Chiki alphabet (Souce: Santhal Worldview (2001), Edited by Nita Mathur, Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts)

ᱚla

ᱛat

ᱜag

ᱝang

ᱞal

ᱟlaa

ᱠaak

ᱡaaj

ᱢaam

ᱣaaw

ᱤli

ᱥis

ᱦih

ᱧiny

ᱨir

ᱩlu

ᱪuc

ᱫud

ᱬunn

ᱭuy

ᱮle

ᱯep

ᱰedd

ᱱen

ᱲerr

ᱳlo

ᱴott

ᱵob

ᱶov

ᱷoh

'- L-

OI Chiki Font Feedback Form

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z. Could you easily spot the text in italics in the line above?Could you underline that word please?

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o@d

€/@

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3. At what distance from the last letter should the mucood " t " be?

4. Should the ol "P" in the line above be wider?

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5. At what height do you think the rela"-" should be?

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6. At what height do you think the phaarkao "-" should be?

. -7'Ol Chiki Font Feedback Form

Z. Do you think the shape of the following letters and number is correct? If not, please draw the shapein the space given next to the letter-

oil

*1'OI Chiki Font Feedback Form

8. Can you please write the following paragraph in your handwriting?

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Handwritten sample of Ol Chiki script by Dr. Damayanti Besra

Printing and handwriting forms of the Ol Chiki alphabet (Souce: Santhal Worldview (2001), Edited by Nita Mathur, Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts)

Phonetic keyboard layout

InScript keyboard layout

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

Q W E R T Y U I O P

A S D F G H J K L

Z X C V B N M

tab

capslock

shift

ᱟ ᱵ ᱦ ᱜ ᱫ ᱡ

ᱝ

᱑ ᱒ ᱓ ᱔ ᱕ ᱖ ᱗ ᱘ ᱙ ᱐

shift

enter

[ᱰ

ᱲ ]ᱹ

ᱧ

bksp

ᱤ ᱩ ᱯ ᱨ ᱠ ᱛᱳ ᱮ ᱚ

:ᱪ;

‘ᱴ

( ) –-

+=

ᱱ ᱣ ᱞ ᱥᱷ ᱸ ᱢ

ᱶᱽ ᱬ ,᱿

.᱾

/ᱣ

alt

Working on keyboard layouts that will work across platforms

Source fileshttps://github.com/anexasajoop/olchiki-fontfamily

User help for input methodshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/sat-Sarjom_baha

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Thank you!@subhapa and @anexasajoop

Typography Day, Bangalore February 27, 2016