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returning to us such artefacts
that were taken away from here.

My dear friends, if I ask you
which language a child learns
most easily and quickly—your
answer will be ‘mother tongue’.
In our country, almost twenty
thousand languages and
dialects are there, and each one
of them is surely a mother tongue
of someone or the other. There
are some languages which are

used by very few people, but you
will be happy to know that today,
unique efforts are being made to
preserve those languages. One
such language is our ‘Santhali’
language. A campaign has been
started to give a new identity to
Santhali with the help of digital
innovation. ‘Santhali’ is spoken
by the people of the Santhal
tribal community residing in
many states of our country.
Apart from India, tribal
communities speaking Santhali
are also present in Bangladesh,
Nepal and Bhutan. Ramjit Tudu,
a resident of Mayurbhanj,
Odisha, is running a campaign
to create an online identity of
the Santhali language. Ramjeet
ji has prepared a digital platform
where literature related to the
Santhali language can be read

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Santhali language script