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.
ح, ز, ص, ض, ط and ظ are only used in Arabic loanwords.
Details of the Santa Arabic alphabet provided by Michael Peter Füstumum
Download an alphabet chart for Santa (PDF)
Details of the Santa Latin alphabet and pronunciation compiled by Wolfram Siegel
Information about Santa | Numbers
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
Alasha, Barin, Buryat, Chakhar, Daur, Jarud, Kalmyk, Khamnigan Mongol, Khorchin, Mogholi, Mongolian, Monguor, Santa / Dongxiang
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
A-chik Tokbirim, Adinkra, ADLaM, Armenian, Avestan, Avoiuli, Bactrian, Bassa (Vah), Beitha Kukju, Berati, 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, Hurûf-ı munfasıla, Irish (Uncial), Kaddare, Kayah Li, Khatt-i-Badíʼ, 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, Quốc âm tân tự, Runic, Székely-Hungarian Rovás (Hungarian Runes), South Picene, Sutton SignWriting, Sunuwar, Tai Viet, Tangsa, Todhri, Toto, Umbrian, (Old) Uyghur, Vellara, Veso Bey, Wancho, Yezidi, Zoulai
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