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22-640: Sankhari is a village in Balasore district in the Indian State of Odisha . 21°37′08″N 87°26′02″E  /  21.618932°N 87.433751°E  / 21.618932; 87.433751 This article related to a location in Odisha is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Balasore district Balasore District , also known as Baleswar District , is an administrative district of Odisha state, in eastern India . Balasore

44-405: A four lane express way. The nearest airport from Balasore is Kolkata International Airport and Biju Patnaik International Airport , Bhubaneswar . Balasore runs state Buses of ( OSRTC ) which provide point to point service from Kolkata to Bhubaneswar (via Balasore). As per the 2011 Census, Balasore district has a population of 2,320,529, which is comparable to the population of Latvia or

66-465: A literacy rate of 84.67%, while rural areas have a literacy rate of 79.18%. Urban areas account for 10.92% of the population. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 20.62% and 11.88% of the population, respectively. Balasore district is predominantly Hindu, comprising about 94.7% of the population with 2,197,709 individuals. Muslims represent the second-largest religious group, making up around 4.1% with 94,254 adherents, while Christians account for

88-410: A smaller 0.3%, totaling 6,434 residents. Other religious minorities include Sikhs (0.01%, 237 individuals), Jains (0.009%, 201 individuals), and Buddhists (0.005%, 111 individuals). Additionally, about 0.8% (18,345 individuals) belong to other faiths, and 0.1% (3,238 individuals) have not stated their religion. Languages of Baleswar district (2011) At the time of the 2011 Census of India , 88.30% of

110-617: Is a public residential school in Bagudi village (near Mangalpur) of Soro block in the Balasore district. Government-run, it provides education to children predominantly from the rural areas and economically challenged families. It was established and is managed by Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (an autonomous organization of the Ministry of Human Resource Development and Department of Secondary Education and Higher Education ).In accordance with

132-675: Is a recognised regional language of India as per the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. It is spoken by around 7.6 million people in India , Bangladesh , Bhutan and Nepal , making it the third most-spoken Austroasiatic language after Vietnamese and Khmer . Santali was a mainly oral language until developments were made by European missionaries to write it in Bengali , Odia and Roman scripts. Eventually,

154-477: Is one of the coastal districts of Odisha and lies on the northernmost part of the state. Baleswar is said to have got its name through the regional derivation of the word Baneswar , from Lord Baneshwar (Lord Shiva), the presiding deity of the town. The Siva temple, Baneswara Temple is located in Puruna Baleswar ( lit.   ' Old Baleswar ' ). Balasore district is located in the northeast of

176-582: The Ol Chiki script was developed by Raghunath Murmu in 1925. Ol Chiki is alphabetic, sharing none of the syllabic properties of the other Indic scripts, and is now widely used to write Santali in India. According to linguist Paul Sidwell , Munda languages probably arrived on the coast of Odisha from Indochina about 4000–3500 years ago, and spread after the Indo-Aryan migration to Odisha . Until

198-902: The Jangalmahals region of West Bengal ( Jhargram , Bankura and Purulia districts) and Mayurbhanj district of Odisha . Smaller pockets of Santali language speakers are found in the northern Chota Nagpur plateau ( Hazaribagh , Giridih , Ramgarh , Bokaro and Dhanbad districts), Balesore and Kendujhar districts of Odisha, and throughout western and northern West Bengal ( Birbhum , Paschim Medinipur , Hooghly , Paschim Bardhaman , Purba Bardhaman , Malda , Dakshin Dinajpur , Uttar Dinajpur , Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling districts), Banka district and Purnia division of Bihar ( Araria , Katihar , Purnia and Kishanganj districts), and tea-garden regions of Assam ( Kokrajhar , Sonitpur , Chirang and Udalguri districts). Outside India,

220-618: The National Policy on Education (1986) of the government of India, the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Bagudi in the Balasore district was established during March 1987. The district has 1 Lok Sabha constituency ( Balasore ) and 8 Vidhan Sabha constituencies. The current MP from Balasore is Pratap Chandra Sarangi from the BJP . The following is the 8 Vidhan sabha constituencies of Balasore district and

242-410: The 10 aspirated stops which occur primarily, but not exclusively, in Indo-Aryan loanwords and are given in parentheses in the table below. In native words, the opposition between voiceless and voiced stops is neutralised in word-final position. A typical Munda feature is that word-final stops are "checked", i. e. glottalised and unreleased. Santali has eight oral and six nasal vowel phonemes. With

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264-428: The U.S. state of New Mexico. It ranks 195th out of 640 districts in India. The district has a population density of 609 people per square kilometer (1,580 per square mile). Over the decade from 2001 to 2011, Balasore's population grew by 14.47%. The district's sex ratio stands at 957 females for every 1,000 males. The overall literacy rate is 79.79%, with male literacy at 87% and female literacy at 72.28%. Urban areas have

286-673: The elected members of that area: Santali language Santali ( Pronounced: [santaɽi] , Ol Chiki : ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ , Bengali : সাঁওতালী , Odia : ସାନ୍ତାଳୀ , Devanagari : संताली ), also known as Santal or Santhali , is the most widely-spoken language of the Munda subfamily of the Austroasiatic languages , related to Ho and Mundari , spoken mainly in the Indian states of Assam , Bihar , Jharkhand , Mizoram , Odisha , Tripura and West Bengal by Santals . It

308-1277: The exception of /e o/, all oral vowels have a nasalized counterpart. There are numerous diphthongs. Santali, like all Munda languages, is a suffixing agglutinating language . Nouns are inflected for number and case. Three numbers are distinguished: singular, dual and plural. The case suffix follows the number suffix. The following cases are distinguished: Transcript version: Santali has possessive suffixes which are only used with kinship terms: 1st person -ɲ , 2nd person -m , 3rd person -t . The suffixes do not distinguish possessor number. The personal pronouns in Santali distinguish inclusive and exclusive first person and anaphoric and demonstrative third person. The interrogative pronouns have different forms for animate ('who?') and inanimate ('what?'), and referential ('which?') vs. non-referential. The indefinite pronouns are: The demonstratives distinguish three degrees of deixis (proximate, distal, remote) and simple ('this', 'that', etc.) and particular ('just this', 'just that') forms. The basic cardinal numbers (transcribed into Latin script IPA) are: The numerals are used with numeral classifiers . Distributive numerals are formed by reduplicating

330-641: The language is spoken in pockets of Rangpur and Rajshahi divisions of northern Bangladesh as well as the Morang and Jhapa districts in the Terai of Koshi Province in Nepal . Santali is one of India's 22 scheduled languages . It is also recognised as the additional official language of the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal. Dialects of Santali include Kamari-Santali, Khole, Lohari-Santali, Mahali, Manjhi, Paharia. Santali has 21 consonants, not counting

352-671: The largest number of speakers. According to 2011 census , India has a total of 7,368,192 Santali speakers (including 358,579 Karmali , 26,399 Mahli ). State wise distribution is Jharkhand (2.75 million), West Bengal (2.43 million), Odisha (0.86 million), Bihar (0.46 million), Assam (0.21 million) and a few thousand in each of Chhattisgarh , and in north-eastern states Tripura , Arunachal Pradesh , Mizoram . The highest concentrations of Santali language speakers are in Santhal Pargana division , as well as East Singhbhum and Seraikela Kharsawan districts of Jharkhand ,

374-550: The nineteenth century, Santali had no written language and all shared knowledge was transmitted by word of mouth from generation to generation. European interest in the study of the languages of India led to the first efforts at documenting the Santali language. Bengali , Odia and Roman scripts were first used to write Santali before the 1860s by European anthropologists, folklorists and missionaries including A. R. Campbell, Lars Skrefsrud and Paul Bodding . Their efforts resulted in Santali dictionaries, versions of folk tales, and

396-450: The population in the district spoke Odia , 4.11% Santali , 3.39% Urdu , 1.30% Bengali and 0.67% Hindi as their first language. The local dialect of the region is Baleswari , a dialect of Odia. Other languages include Bhunjia, spoken by approximately 7000 Bhunjia Adivasis and Santali . The district constitute primary university is F. M. University . Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Bagudi (also known as JNV Bagudi or JNV Balasore)

418-481: The state of Odisha and lies between 21° 3' to 21° 59' north latitude and 86° 20' to 87° 29' east longitude. The average altitude of the district is 19.08-metre. The district has a total area of 3634 km . It is bounded by Purba Medinipur , Paschim Medinipur and Jhargram districts of West Bengal in its north, the Bay of Bengal to its east, Bhadrak district to the south and Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar districts to

440-534: The study of the morphology, syntax and phonetic structure of the language. The Ol Chiki script was created for Santali by Mayurbhanj poet Raghunath Murmu in 1925 and first publicised in 1939. Ol Chiki as a Santali script is widely accepted among Santal communities. Presently in West Bengal , Odisha , and Jharkhand , Ol Chiki is the official script for Santali literature & language. However, users from Bangladesh use Bengali script instead. Santali

462-452: The west. The district lies along the Odisha coastal plain. In the southwest there are some small hill ranges. The Subarnarekha is the main river, and it empties into the Bay of Bengal in the district. Balasore railway station falls en route on the main line connecting Chennai to Kolkata . NH 16 (erstwhile NH 5) runs through Balasore, and NH 60 , which connects Balasore to Kolkata, is

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484-641: Was honoured in December 2013 when the University Grants Commission of India decided to introduce the language in the National Eligibility Test to allow lecturers to use the language in colleges and universities. Distribution of Santali language in the states of India Santali is spoken by over seven million people across India , Bangladesh , Bhutan , and Nepal , with India being its native country and having

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