Ol Chiki is a Unicode block containing the Ol Chiki symbols. It was also called the Ol Cemet' (Santali: ol 'writing', cemet ' 'learning') script, and it was used for writing the Santali language during the early 20th century. It was created by Raghunath Murmu in 1925.
Santali used to be written with the Latin alphabet. However, since Santali is not an Indo-Aryan language (like most other languages in the south of India), Indic scripts did not have letters for all of Santali's phonemes, especially its stop consonants and vowels, which made it difficult to write the language accurately in an unmodified Indic script.
The detailed analysis was given by Dr. Byomkes Chakrabarti in his 'Comparative Study of Santali and Bengali'. Missionaries (first of all Paul Olaf Bodding, a Norwegian) brought the Latin script, which is better at representing Santali stops, phonemes and nasal sounds with the use of Diacritical marks and accents.
Unlike most Indic scripts, which have been derived from Brahmi, Ol Chiki is not an abugida. When other Indic scripts were driven by consonants, the Ol Chiki vowels are given equal representation with consonants. In addition, it was designed specifically for the language, but it was impossible to aassign one letter to each phoneme because the sixth vowel in Ol Chiki was still problematic.
Ol Chiki has 30 letters, the forms of which are intended to repeat the natural shapes of the letters. This was confirmed by the linguist Norman Zide, who said 「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.」 It is written from left to right.
プロパティ
スコープ | 1C50–1C7F |
文字 | 48 |
キャラクターのリスト
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数字
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1C50᱐
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1C51᱑
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1C52᱒
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1C53᱓
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1C54᱔
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1C55᱕
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1C56᱖
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1C57᱗
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1C58᱘
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1C59᱙
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手紙
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1C5Aᱚ
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1C5Bᱛ
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1C5Cᱜ
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1C5Dᱝ
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1C5Eᱞ
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1C5Fᱟ
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1C60ᱠ
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1C61ᱡ
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1C62ᱢ
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1C63ᱣ
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1C64ᱤ
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1C65ᱥ
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1C66ᱦ
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1C67ᱧ
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1C68ᱨ
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1C69ᱩ
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1C6Aᱪ
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1C6Bᱫ
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1C6Cᱬ
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1C6Dᱭ
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1C6Eᱮ
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1C6Fᱯ
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1C70ᱰ
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1C71ᱱ
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1C72ᱲ
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1C73ᱳ
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1C74ᱴ
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1C75ᱵ
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1C76ᱶ
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1C77ᱷ
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修飾文字
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1C78ᱸ
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1C79ᱹ
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1C7Aᱺ
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1C7Bᱻ
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1C7Cᱼ
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1C7Dᱽ
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句読点
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1C7E᱾
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1C7F᱿
文字表
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᱐1C50
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᱑1C51
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᱒1C52
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᱓1C53
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᱔1C54
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᱕1C55
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᱖1C56
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᱗1C57
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᱘1C58
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᱙1C59
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ᱚ1C5A
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ᱛ1C5B
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ᱜ1C5C
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ᱝ1C5D
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ᱞ1C5E
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ᱟ1C5F
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ᱠ1C60
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ᱡ1C61
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ᱢ1C62
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ᱣ1C63
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ᱤ1C64
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ᱥ1C65
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ᱦ1C66
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ᱧ1C67
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ᱨ1C68
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ᱩ1C69
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ᱪ1C6A
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ᱫ1C6B
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ᱬ1C6C
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ᱭ1C6D
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ᱮ1C6E
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ᱯ1C6F
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ᱰ1C70
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ᱱ1C71
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ᱲ1C72
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ᱳ1C73
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ᱴ1C74
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ᱵ1C75
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ᱶ1C76
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ᱷ1C77
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ᱸ1C78
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ᱹ1C79
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ᱺ1C7A
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ᱻ1C7B
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ᱼ1C7C
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ᱽ1C7D
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᱾1C7E
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᱿1C7F