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A script designed for Santali in 1925.
Also known as: Santali alphabet
The script created in 1925 to write the Santali language of eastern India.
Writes the Santali language as a full alphabet with separate vowel letters.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Created by Pandit Raghunath Murmu, who designed each letter after an object beginning with its sound, so the alphabet is mnemonic by construction — the same design logic as the Hangul articulatory letters by a different route.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Thirty letters of simple geometric strokes, each said to be shaped after an object whose name begins with the sound it writes.