Langenesis

Austroasiatic family

Santali

c. 1000 CE – today Living

Santali (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Austroasiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Austroasiatic → Proto-Munda → Santali.

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Speakers
7.6M (7,600,000)
ISO 639-3
sat
Glottocode
sant1410

Largest Munda language, spoken in Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and neighbouring countries; written in Ol Chiki (1925). Scheduled language of India since 2003.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Austroasiaticc. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Mundac. 1,500 BCE – 500 BCE
  3. Santalic. 1000 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Munda.

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