{"id":79868,"date":"2025-12-27T13:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=79868"},"modified":"2025-12-27T15:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T09:51:44","slug":"santhali-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/santhali-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Santhali Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Santhali Language Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Droupadi Murmu recently released the Constitution of India in the Santhali language at a function held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Santhali Language<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Santhali language, which was <\/span><b>included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/8th-schedule-of-indian-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eighth Schedule <\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Constitution through the <\/span><b>92nd Amendment Act, 2003<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is <\/span><b>one of the most ancient living languages of India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is spoken by a significant number of <\/span><b>tribal people in Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, and Bihar.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is primarily used by the <\/span><b>Santhal tribal community.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>also spoken in Nepal and Bangladesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>In India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it is spoken by an estimated <\/span><b>7 million people,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> according to recent census data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a m<\/span><b>ember of the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic language family<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is an ancient family of languages <\/span><b>spoken across parts of South and Southeast Asia.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is quite <\/span><b>distinct from the Indo-European language family<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of languages <\/span><b>spoken in much of India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is closely <\/span><b>related to <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">other <\/span><b>Munda languages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as <\/span><b>Ho, Mundari, and Korku.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These languages<\/span><b> share common features<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as their <\/span><b>agglutinative nature <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(where <\/span><b>words <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are <\/span><b>formed by stringing together smaller units of meaning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and their <\/span><b>use of tones.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santhali has a unique and rich tradition, with its<\/span><b> own script and oral literature,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reflecting the culture and beliefs of the Santhal tribe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santhali<\/span><b> uses the Ol Chiki script,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a writing system that was <\/span><b>developed in 1925 by Pandit Raghunath Murmu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a Santhal scholar and writer. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/president-murmu-releases-constitution-of-india-in-santhali-language\/article70437103.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santhali language, spoken by 7M+ tribal people in India, now in Constitution. 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