Santali Keyboard

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About this app

Santali Keyboard. Type in the Ol Chiki script anywhere on your Android phone.

Santali Keyboard is a free, offline first typing app for the Santali language in the Ol Chiki script. Write fluently in Santali across your apps, including messaging, social media, email, notes, and search, with full Unicode support.

Features:
- Complete Ol Chiki keyboard with all 30 letters, diacritics, punctuation, and Ol Chiki numerals, fully Unicode compliant
- Smart word prediction and next word suggestions that improve as you type
- Bilingual typing to switch instantly between Santali (Ol Chiki) and English
- Built in Santali to English dictionary to look up words and meanings
- Voice input to speak in Santali and have it transcribed to Ol Chiki (requires internet)
- Notepad to draft messages, lyrics, or essays in Ol Chiki and share in one tap
- Learn Ol Chiki with interactive lessons to master the alphabet step by step
- Light and dark themes
- Works fully offline (only voice input needs a connection)
- Privacy first, with no keystroke logging and no personal data collection
- Free, with no ads or in app purchases

Type Santali anywhere:
Use the keyboard in any Android app that accepts text input, including messaging, social media, email, documents, browsers, and search.

For the Santali community:
Santali is spoken by over 7 million people across Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Assam, Nepal, and Bangladesh. Ol Chiki, created by Pandit Raghunath Murmu, is the official script of the language. This app helps Santali speakers, students, teachers, and Adivasi communities write in their own script, whether you are a student, a writer, a teacher, or a parent passing the language to the next generation.

What’s new

Santali Keyboard 1.0.0 — first release.

• Native Ol Chiki keyboard usable system-wide in any app
• Bilingual: switch between Ol Chiki and English with one tap
• Numbers, full symbol set, ₹ and other currencies, 250+ emojis
• Word prediction trained on Santali
• Voice input in Santali, Hindi, English, Bengali, and Odia
• Built-in dictionary, notepad, and beginner lessons for learning Ol Chiki