Santali (India (Jharkhand))→English

Translate Santali (India (Jharkhand)) to English the way locals mean it.

Santali speakers in Jharkhand use greeting particles, polite imperatives, and existential wording in ways that a word-for-word reader can mistake for literal statements.

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ᱡᱚᱦᱟᱨ ᱜᱮ!

Hey, hello!

ᱜᱮ is an emphatic, familiar particle here, so the phrase is a warm greeting rather than a literal statement with an extra meaning.

ᱪᱮᱫ ᱞᱮᱠᱟ ᱢᱮᱱᱟᱢ?

How are you?

ᱪᱮᱫ ᱞᱮᱠᱟ literally asks what manner or condition someone is in, but the whole construction is the ordinary conversational greeting.

ᱡᱚᱢ ᱢᱮ

Go ahead and eat.

ᱢᱮ marks a gentle imperative, so this sounds like an invitation or polite urging, not a blunt command to eat.

ᱱᱚᱣᱟ ᱫᱚ ᱛᱤᱱᱟᱹᱜ ᱛᱟᱠᱟ?

How much does this cost?

ᱛᱟᱠᱟ means money, while ᱫᱚ is the Santali topic marker that highlights the item being priced.

ᱦᱟᱹᱴ ᱫᱚ ᱚᱠᱟ ᱨᱮ ᱢᱮᱱᱟ?

Where is the market?

ᱨᱮ is the Santali locative marker, signaling a place, and ᱚᱠᱟ asks which place or where.

ᱤᱧᱟᱜ ᱟᱭᱳ ᱚᱲᱟᱜ ᱨᱮ ᱢᱮᱱᱟᱭ.

My mother is at home.

ᱟᱜ marks possession in Santali, so ᱤᱧᱟᱜ means my, while ᱨᱮ marks the location.

ᱤᱧ ᱠᱟᱹᱢ ᱠᱟᱱᱟᱧ.

I am working.

ᱠᱟᱱᱟ is used in the ongoing-action construction, and the final ᱧ signals the first-person subject.

ᱛᱤᱦᱤᱧ ᱵᱟᱹᱨᱥᱟ ᱦᱚᱪᱚ ᱠᱟᱱᱟ.

It is raining today.

ᱛᱤᱦᱤᱧ means today, while ᱦᱚᱪᱚ ᱠᱟᱱᱟ forms a Santali ongoing-event expression for rain.

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