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Santali Alphabet (Ol Chiki)

The letters and characters of Santali written in the Ol Chiki script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 7,750,215 people read or write it across 1 country.

Santali is also written in: (Devanagari)

5Fonts cover the standard set
36Standard characters
7,750,215People
1Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Santali — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

-U+002D‐U+2010‑U+2011,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D{U+007B}U+007D

Where Santali (Ol Chiki) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Santali in the Ol Chiki script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
India 7,750,215 0.55%

Santali (Ol Chiki) — facts

Font coverage 5 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 36 standard characters; 5 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Ol_Chiki
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Ol Chiki, General Punctuation
People About 7,750,215 people read or write Santali in the Ol Chiki script — mostly in India.
Also written in Santali (Devanagari)

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.