The Santali Wikipedia ( Santali: ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱣᱤᱠᱤᱯᱤᱰᱤᱭᱟ) is the

Santali language Santali (, Ol Chiki: ), Bengali: , Odia: , Devanagari: , also known as Santal, is the most widely spoken language of the Munda subfamily of the Austroasiatic languages, related to Ho and Mundari, spoken mainly in the Indian states of Ass ...

version of

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, run by the

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. The site was launched on 2 August 2018. Santali language's own alphabet,

Ol Chiki The Ol Chiki () script, also known as Ol Chemetʼ (Santali: ''ol'' 'writing', ''chemet'' 'learning'), Ol Ciki, Ol, and sometimes as the Santali alphabet invented by Pandit Raghunath Murmu in the year 1925, is the official writing system for San ...

, has been used as the alphabet of this Wikipedia. Santali is a language in the Munda subfamily of

Austroasiatic languages The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are t ...

, spoken by around 7.4 million people in

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and

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History

The Santali Wikipedia was in incubator stage since September 2010. The process of creating a Santali-language Wikipedia began in 2012 and, later on, picked up momentum in February 2017. Back in 2012, Wikimedia Bangladesh organized a Wikipedia meetup and workshop with the Santali Language Community in Dinajpur District of Bangladesh with the goal of launching a Santali Language Wikipedia. However, that process slowed after some time. Then in September 2017, Wikimedia Bangladesh organized another meeting with the Santali Language Community in a Dhaka Wikipedia meetup where a decision was made to expedite the launch of the Wikipedia. Following that discussion, a workshop was organized in

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city i ...

by Wikimedia Bangladesh for the Santali-language community on 30 December 2017. The Santali-language community from India also participated in that program through online discussion. Subsequently, another workshop was organized for the Santali-language community in

Odisha Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...

, India, on 11 March 2018 in collaboration with the Odia Wikimedians User Group. After months of work, the Wikimedia Language Committee approved the Santali-language Wikipedia on 28 June 2018 and the Santali Wikipedia site was finally launched on 2 August 2018.

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File:Santali Wikipedia workshop in Bangladesh 2012.jpg, First Santali Wikipedia workshop in Bangladesh (2012). File:Workshop for Santali Wikipedia Community in Bangladesh, 2017 (1).jpg, Workshop for Santali Wikipedia Community in Bangladesh (2017) File:Group picture of Santali Wikipedia workshop on 11 March 2018.jpg, First Santali Wikipedia workshop in India (2018) File:Bangladesh santali wikipedia group.jpg, Santali Wikipedia workshop in Bangladesh (2020)

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* Santali Wikipedia * /www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia.org multilingual portal
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Wikipedias by language Santali language Internet properties established in 2018 Wikipedia in India {{Wikimedia-stub

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