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Detailed explanation-1: -Santhali becomes India’s first tribal language to get a Wikipedia edition in its native script. Santhali has become the first Indian tribal language to get a Wikipedia edition in its native script. It is a language in the Munda subfamily of Austroasiatic languages & presently has content of about 70, 000 words.

Detailed explanation-2: -Santhali is written in Ol Chiki script and spoken by 6.4 million people, according to the 2001 census, in India alone and its speakers live mostly in Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Assam. It is also spoken in Bangladesh and Nepal.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is a recognised regional language of India per the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. It is spoken by around 7.6 million people in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, making it the third most-spoken Austroasiatic language after Vietnamese and Khmer.

Detailed explanation-4: -Handmawak Ato is the first Novel of the Santhali language published in the Roman script by R. Carteryars in 1946.

Detailed explanation-5: -Santali language, Santali also spelled Santhali, a Munda language spoken primarily in the east-central Indian states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Orissa.