Santali
Americannoun
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Working in Kora and Santali, two underserved Indigenous languages spoken in eastern India, she is an employee at Suchana Uttor Chandipur Community Society, one of StoryWeaver’s many partner organizations scattered all over the world.
From Slate • Jan. 16, 2023
Hansda hopes for a day when her grandchildren can live their online lives in Santali.
From Slate • Jan. 16, 2023
The 100,000 sentences Hansda will add to the AI4Bharat dataset for Santali over 18 months span Indigenous oral histories, folktales, literature, sentences, and words.
From Slate • Jan. 16, 2023
Santali is an agglutinative language of great regularity and complexity but when the Santals come in contact with races speaking an Aryan language it is apt to become corrupted with foreign idioms.
From Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Bompas, Cecil Henry
The inhabitants crowd around us, saying "Johar," which I take it is Santali for "Salaam," and we repeat "Johar" and grin broadly in reply; and the pie dogs sniff round us in a friendly way.
From Olivia in India by Douglas, O.
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