First online magazine in Santali language
Indian activists published the first online magazine in the Santali language, the Birmali magazine. It was published to the 116th birthday anniversary of Pandit Raghunath Murmu, also known as Guru Gomke, who invented the Santali script Ol Chiki. Santali is a language spoken by around 6.2 million people in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal. Most of its speakers live in India, in the states of Jharkhand, Assam, Bihar, Odisha, Tripura, and West Bengal.
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