[citation needed] Mal Paharia uses the Devanagari script and rules for its writing, reading, and speech.
[citation needed] The speakers of this language originated in Jharkhand as early as 1881, and since then it has declined in popularity.
[2] Industrialization and urbanization were factors in the fragmentation of the Bengali language into dialects because of the making of dams, mines, homes, and more.
[citation needed] This caused a displacement in the population of the Indo-European speakers, which led to the emergence of Mal Paharia.
Mal Paharia uses the Devangari script,[4] and in the chart there are a few examples of words in writing, and translated in English.
Some exceptions are; jha, tha, dha, bha, a and ā, because there is a break in the headstroke.
Conjunct consonants are used to represent combinations of sounds, thus increasing its versatility in word formation.
It uses five places of articulation listed in the chart below:[5] Among all of the consonants and vowels, they are voiced, unvoiced, or nasal.