Raghunath Murmu

Who was Raghunath Murmu?

Pandit Raghunath Murmu was the creator of the script known as "Ol Chiki" used for the Santhali language. "Ol Cemet & Parsi Poha " are his premier book in OL CHIKI script consisting of 35 letters including 11 Vowel and 24 consonant. The alphabets were arranged according to the concise linguistic principle and this grammatical arrangement written in the another book known as RONOR. The system of transliteration used in the famous book “PARSI POHA” confirmed to a system that scholar/writer have almost universally accepted to indicate the pronunciation of each kherwal sound to educate the native santali speaking people about script,language or culture for the development of Santali Language & Literature . The OLCHIKI PARSI is a unique modern indict script which has both capital & small letter developed since 1925 dully compare with nature.The general linguistic terms of General Mathematics, Syntax/Morphology, Phonology/Phonetics and Semantics/Pragmatics has been written in his published book "RONOR, ELKHA & PARSI POHA". Pondit Murmu, arrange the Day, Date, Week, Month, Year etc. in his calendar GODDET as per lunar clips and accepted unanimously by the Kherwal Community at All India Conference held at Bed-Kundri" in the month of Feb 1977.In the years 1947-48 Mr Pruthinath Murmu of Tanki tolah Baripodah,was appointed as translator/interpreter and works as stenographer in Mayurbhanj Assembly for native Santali Language speaking MLA's at that time he felt the necessary for use of SANTALI short hand than he developed the Santali short hand by OLCHIKI script.