Santa (Sarta kelen / لھجکءاءل)

Santa is a Mongolic language spoken by about 200,000 people mainly in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu province, and in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Santa is also known as Dongxiang or 东乡语 in Chinese. The Dongxiang people call themselves Sarta (撒尔塔).

Santa is written with a version of the Arabic script, and an official way of writing Santa with the Latin alphabet was deveoped in 2003.

Arabic script for Santa

Arabic script for Santa

ح, ز, ص, ض, ط and ظ are only used in Arabic loanwords.

Details of the Santa Arabic alphabet provided by Michael Peter Füstumum

Latin alphabet for Santa

Santa alphabet and pronunciation

Download an alphabet chart for Santa (PDF)

Details of the Santa Latin alphabet and pronunciation compiled by Wolfram Siegel

Videos in Santa

Information about Santa | Numbers

Links

Information about the Santa language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongxiang_(langue)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolische_Sprachen
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sce
http://geonames.de/alphce.html
http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp055_dongxiang_language.pdf
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/im/Sprache/Dongxiang.html

Mongolic languages

Alasha, Barin, Buryat, Chakhar, Daur, Jarud, Kalmyk, Khamnigan Mongol, Khorchin, Mogholi, Mongolian, Monguor, Santa / Dongxiang

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Alphabets

A-chik Tokbirim, Adinkra, ADLaM, Armenian, Avestan, Avoiuli, Bactrian, Bassa (Vah), Beitha Kukju, Beria (Zaghawa), Borama / Gadabuursi, Carian, Carpathian Basin Rovas, Chinuk pipa, Chisoi, Coorgi-Cox, Coptic, Cyrillic, Dalecarlian runes, Elbasan, Etruscan, Faliscan, Fox, Galik, Georgian (Asomtavruli), Georgian (Nuskhuri), Georgian (Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Global Alphabet, Gothic, Greek, Irish (Uncial), Kaddare, Kayah Li, Khatt-i-Badí’, Khazarian Rovas, Koch, Korean, Latin, Lepontic, Luo Lakeside Script, Lycian, Lydian, Manchu, Mandaic, Mandombe, Marsiliana, Medefaidrin, Messapic, Mongolian, Mro, Mundari Bani, Nag Chiki, Naasioi Otomaung, N'Ko, North Picene, Novo Tupi, Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong, Odùduwà, Ogham, Old Church Slavonic, Oirat Clear Script, Ol Chiki (Ol Cemet' / Santali), Old Italic, Old Nubian, Old Permic, Ol Onal, Orkhon, Osage, Oscan, Osmanya (Somali), Pau Cin Hau, Phrygian, Pollard script, Runic, Székely-Hungarian Rovás (Hungarian Runes), South Picene, Sutton SignWriting, Sunuwar, Tai Viet, Tangsa, Todhri, Toto, Umbrian, (Old) Uyghur, Wancho, Yezidi, Zoulai

Other writing systems

Page last modified: 09.05.24

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