Pandit Raghunath Murmu
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Pandit Raghunath Murmu was the creator of the writing known variously as Ol Chiki script
Ol Chiki script
The Ol Chiki script, also known as Ol Cemetʼ , Ol Ciki, Ol , was created in 1925 by Raghunath Murmu for the Santali language. Previously, Santali had been written with the Bengali alphabet, Oriya alphabet, or Latin alphabet, on the rare occasions it was written at all...

, Ol Cemet' ("language of writing"), Ol Ciki, Ol, and sometimes as the Santali alphabet, in 1925, used for writing the Santali language
Santali language
Santhali is a language in the Santhali subfamily of Austro-Asiatic, related to Ho and Mundari. It is spoken by about six million people in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan . Most of its speakers live in India, in the states of Jharkhand, Assam, Bihar, Orissa, Tripura, and West Bengal. It has...

 of India and neighbouring countries. He was also a spiritual Guru for Santhals.He wrote "Sarna Dhorom Hitlay ar bang HITAL".He preached "Sarna Dhorom". He also worked a lot for safeguarding tribal interests in Jharkhand.

Early life

He was born in a village, called (Dahardih) Dandbose, on 5 May 1905 on the day of full moon in the district of Mayurbhanj, Orissa. He was a school teacher at Rairangapur, Orissa .

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