The second day of the workshop on Ol’Chiki Script (Santhali) commenced at Indira Gandhi National for the Arts, Ranchi Regional Centre’s office here on Saturday. The workshop was divided into two sessions and each session had the duration of one hour each. About 50 students participated in the workshop. The first session dealt with “Introducing Ol’Chiki Vowels”.
The speaker of the session was Gangadhar Hansda, an Ol’Chiki scholar and the session was chaired by Dr. Binod Kumar, Head Tribal Regional language, Dr SP Mukherjee University. At the outset, Dr. Binod Kumar welcomed all the participants and introduced the speaker. He also briefly discussed about the previous days’ session and how it had benefitted the participants of the workshop. In the session, the speaker broadly imparted the education of the vowels. Its usage, pronunciation and origin were discussed. Vowels, being major part of the script, have dialectical importance. Its proper implication is necessary.
The students were taught how to write and execute it in an Ol’Chiki sentence. The placement of the vowel in a word was also briefly discussed. In the second session detailed study of the consonants Ol’Chiki was conducted.
Dr KC Tudu, an eminent scholar of Ol’Chiki was present as the speaker and Gangadhar Hansda, the speaker of the previous session chaired the session.
The main objective of the session was concentrated on the consonants of Ol’Chiki alphabets. Usage of consonants in word formation, its pronunciation, writing and dialectical values was discussed in the session.
After the completion of both the sessions of the day, Dr. Bachchan Kumar, Regional Director, IGNCA, RRC thanked the speakers, the chairpersons and all the participants of the workshop for being a part of such an eventful endeavour.