Why is it in the news?
→ Centenary celebrations of the Ol Chiki script were inaugurated by the President of India.
→ The event marks 100 years of the script preserving Santhali cultural identity.
Category: History
Important Points
- Invented by Pandit Raghunath Murmu in 1925.
- Designed for the Santhali language belonging to the Austroasiatic family.
- Consists of 30 phonetic letters.
- First book High Serena written in 1936.
- Used across Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar and Assam.
- Santhali was included in the Eighth Schedule via 92nd Constitutional Amendment Act 2003.
- Constitution of India translated into Ol Chiki in December 2025.
- Script accurately represents glottal stops and vowel patterns.