Santali alphabet
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The Santali alphabet, also known as Ol Cemet' ("language of writing"), Ol Ciki, Ol Chiki, or Ol, was created in 1925 by Pandit Raghunath Murmu for the Santali language. Previously, Santali had been written with the Bengali alphabet, Oriya alphabet, or Latin alphabet, on the rare occasions it was written at all. But because Santali is not an Indo-European language (like most other languages in the north of India), Indic scripts didn't have letters for all of Santali's phonemes, especially its stop consonants and vowels, which made writing the language accurately in an unmodified Indic script difficult. Missionaries brought the Latin alphabet, which was better at representing some of Santali's stops, but vowels were still problematic. Unlike most Indic scripts, which are derived from Brahmi (and possibly originally from the Phoenician abjad, like the Latin alphabet), Santali is a true alphabet, not a syllabary, with vowels given equal representation with consonants. Additionally, because it was designed specifically for the language, one letter could be assigned to each phoneme.
Santali has 30 letters, the forms of which are intended to evoke natural shapes. Linguist Norman Zide said "The shapes of the letters are not arbitrary, but reflect the names for the letters, which are words, usually the names of objects or actions representing conventionalized form in the pictorial shape of the characters."[1] (http://wesanthals.tripod.com/santals/id45.html) It is written from left to right. Unfortunately, despite Murmu's efforts, literacy in Santali is still very low, between 10% and 30%.
See also: Santali alphabet (Omniglot) (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/santali.htm), http://wesanthals.tripod.com/