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{{Infobox writing system<br />
| name = Mundari Bani<br />
| languages = [[Mundari language|Mundari]]<br />
| type = [[Alphabet]]<br />
| time = 1982 to present <br />
| direction = Left to Right<br />
| region = [[Odisha]], [[Jharkhand]], [[West Bengal]], [[Assam]] ([[India]])<br />
| creator = [[Rohidas Singh Nag]]<br />
| date = 1982<br />
| fam1= original inventor<br />
| iso15924 =<br />
| sample = Mundari in Mundari Bani script.png<br />
| image size = <br />
| caption = 'Mundari' in Mundari Bani Script<br />
| ipa-note=none<br />
}}<br />
[[File:MundariLanguageScript.jpg|thumb|Mundari Bani]]<br />
'''Mundari Bani''' (Mundari: ''Bani'' 'alphabet', also known as '''Mundari Bani Hisir''' ''Hisir'' 'writing', or the '''Mundari alphabet''') is the native writing system for the [[Mundari language]], spoken in eastern India. Mundari is an [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]] language. Mundari Bani has 27 letters and five diacritics, the forms of which are intended to evoke natural shapes. The script is written from [[Writing_system#Directionality|left to right]].<br />
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Community elder and author [[Rohidas Singh Nag]] invented and published the [[alphabet]]ic writing system Mundari Bani in late 1980, and has seen limited but increasing use in literature, education, and computing.<br />
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==History==<br />
[[Rohidas Singh Nag]] started designing the initial characters of Mundari bani in 1949 while in grade school, which he wrote on the walls using clay.<ref>{{cite book |title=Know Your State West Bengal |date=22 August 2019 |publisher=Arihant Experts |isbn=9789313198017 |pages=272 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Know_Your_State_West_Bengal/qhrzDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Mundari+Bani%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA272&printsec=frontcover}}</ref><ref name="unicode 2021">{{cite web|title=Proposal to Encode the Mundari Bani Script in the Universal Character Set |first1=Lawrence |last1=Wolf-Sonkin |first2=Biswajit |last2=Mandal |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21031-mundari-bani.pdf |date=8 January 2021|access-date=10 May 2021|format=pdf}}</ref> By 1953 he had finished a set of 35 characters. He further simplified the alphabet in 1980 by reducing it to 27 alphabetical characters. In 2008 Bharat Munda Samaj, Mundari Samaj Sanwar Jamda and Nag reformed the script in styling and adding glyphs. Since then, fonts were developed using this standard.<br />
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Nag presented the alphabet in the 1980s to then-[[Chief Minister of Odisha]] [[Janaki Ballabh Patnaik]] and submitted a memorandum to recognize the Munda language constitutionally. Nag along with others submitted a memorandum to the then [[president of India]] in 1999 appealing again for the constitutional recognition. "Mundari Samaj Sanwar Jamda", a social organisation of the Munda community based in Poda Astia, [[Mayurbhanj district|Mayurbhanj]] has been demanding to incorporate the [[Munda language]] in the [[Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India]], to air [[Munda language]] through [[All India Radio]], and establish a [[Munda language]] department at [[North Odisha University]] for higher studies on the basis of the writing system and literature.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stscodisha.gov.in/pdf/June-Dec-2012-Vol-1-2.pdf | title = page no.96, Adivasi, A Journal of Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute (SCSTRTI)| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161108183956/http://www.stscodisha.gov.in/pdf/June-Dec-2012-Vol-1-2.pdf| archive-date = 8 November 2016}}</ref> The writing system has seen limited but increasing use in literature, education, and computing.<br />
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FROM [[Mundari language]], to be merged into existing History section (20-5-2021)<br />
Rohidas Singh Nag was born on 5.2.1934 in Salbani village, [[Mayurbhanj]] district of Odisha. It was in the year 1949 Rohidas Singh Nag studying at class –III invented Mundari script and wrote the alphabets on the wall of school with the help of clay. In the year 1953, Nag was a student of class –VIII invented 35 alphabets of Mundari script. Further, Nag simplified Mundari script and in the year 1980 total 27 alphabets were selected for use.<br />
In 1980 [[Rohidas Singh Nag]] brought to the knowledge of the then [[Chief Minister of Odisha]] Shri [[Janaki Ballabh Patnaik|J.B. Pattnaik]] on the development of Mundari script and submitted a memorandum to recognize Munda language constitutionally. In 1999 [[Rohidas Singh Nag]] with others submitted a memorandum to the then [[president of India]] and appealed for constitutional recognition of [[Munda language]]. Mundari Samaj Sanwar Jamda (A Social Organisation of Munda community), Poda Astia, [[Mayurbhanj]] has been demanding to incorporate [[Munda language]] in the eighth schedule of the constitution of India, to air [[Munda language]] through All India Radio, further to establish a department of [[Munda language]] at North [[Odisha]] University, Baripada for higher studies. He was the first General Secretary of Mundari Samaj Sanwar Jamda. Different social organisations have felicitated [[Rohidas Singh Nag]]. In 1996 Academy of Tribal Dialects and Culture (A Research Institute of S.T and S.C. Development Department, Government of Odisha) for his significant contribution to tribal language and culture of Odisha in general and Munda language and culture in Particular. In 2004 by Bharat Munda Samaj and in 2010 at Balangi Mahostava in Baripada, he was also felicitated.”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stscodisha.gov.in/pdf/June-Dec-2012-Vol-1-2.pdf | title = page no.96, Adivasi, A Journal of Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute (SCSTRTI)| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161108183956/http://www.stscodisha.gov.in/pdf/June-Dec-2012-Vol-1-2.pdf| archive-date = 8 November 2016}}</ref><br />
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==The script==<br />
Since the 2008 edits, Mundari Bani has 27 alphabetical characters, five diacritics, ten (decimal) digits. Their names follow traditional names. It uses Latin-script punctuation like period and comma.<ref name="unicode 2021"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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