Editing Ol Chiki script (section)

{{Short description|Alphabetic script for Santal people}}
{{use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox writing system
| name        = {{ubl
  | Ol Chiki
  | {{lang|sat|ᱚᱞ ᱪᱤᱠᱤ}}
  }}
| sample      = Ol Chiki.svg
| imagesize   = 180px
| languages   = [[Santali language]]
| type        = Alphabet
| time        = 1925–present
| creator     = [[Raghunath Murmu]]
| unicode     = [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1C50.pdf U+1C50–U+1C7F]
| iso15924    = Olck
}}
{{Contains special characters
| special    = uncommon [[Unicode]] characters
| fix        = Help:Multilingual support#Ol Chiki
| image      = Replacement character.svg
| link       = Specials (Unicode block)#Replacement character
| alt        = <?>
| compact    = yes
}}
{{Writing systems in India}}

The '''Ol Chiki''' ({{lang|sat|ᱚᱞ ᱪᱤᱠᱤ}}) script, also known as '''Ol Chemetʼ''' ({{lang|sat|ᱚᱞ ᱪᱮᱢᱮᱫ}}, {{Transliteration|sat|ol}} {{gloss|writing}}, {{Transliteration|sat|chemetʼ}} {{gloss|learning}}), '''Ol Ciki''', '''Ol''', and sometimes as the '''Santali alphabet''' is the official writing system for [[Santali language|Santali]], an [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]] language recognized as an official regional language in [[India]].  It was invented by [[Pandit]] [[Raghunath Murmu]] in 1925. It has 30 letters, the design of which is intended to evoke natural shapes. The script is written from left to right, and has two styles (the print ''Chapa'' style and cursive ''Usara'' style). Unicode does not maintain a distinction between these two, as is typical for print and cursive variants of a script. In both styles, the script is [[Unicameral alphabet|unicameral]] (that is, it does not have separate sets of uppercase and lowercase letters).

{{Blockquote|text=The shapes of the letters are not arbitrary, but reflect the names for the letters, which are words, usually the names of objects or actions representing conventionalized form in the pictorial shape of the characters.|sign=Norman Zide|source=A portal for Santals<ref name="portal"/>}}