Ho language

This article is about the Austroasiatic language of India. For the Tibeto-Burman language also known as Ho of China, Vietnam and Laos, see Hani language.
Ho
𑢹𑣉𑣉 𑣎𑣋𑣜 Ho jagar
Pronunciation /hoː ʤʌgʌr/
Native to India, Bangladesh
Ethnicity Ho people
Native speakers
 1.04 million (2001 census)[1]
Varang Kshiti,
Oriya, Devanagari, Latin
Official status
Official language in
 Secondary Official Language in Jharkhand
Language codes
ISO 639-3 hoc
Glottolog hooo1248[2]
Ho language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

Ho (𑢹𑣉𑣉 𑣎𑣋𑣜, IPA: /hoː ʤʌgʌr/) is a Munda language of the Austroasiatic language family spoken primarily in India by about 1.04 million people (0.103% of India's population) per the 2001 census. It is spoken by the Ho people and is written with the Varang Kshiti script. In some regions, Oriya, Devanagari and Latin scripts are used,[3] but are considered non-ideal by the native speakers who prefer exclusive use of Varang Kshiti. [4] The name "Ho" is derived from the native word "𑣙𑣉𑣉" (IPA: /hoː/) which means "Human being".[5]

Distribution

The largest concentrations of Ho speakers are in the West Singhbhum ,Jamshedpur and East Singhbhum district of southern Jharkhand and in the Mayurbhanj district and Keonjhar district, Jajpur district, Sundergarh district, Balasore District, Dhenkanal district, Sambalpur district, Cuttack district, Angul District, Bhadrak district of Odisha. Ho is closer to the Mayurbhanj dialect of Mundari than the language spoken in Jharkhand. Although Ho and Mundari are linguistically close, the ethnic identity of the speakers is distinct.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Ho at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ho". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ "The Warang Chiti Alphabet". Swarthmore.edu. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Harrison, Anderson, David, Gregory. "Review of Proposal for Encoding Warang Chiti (Hoorthography) in Unicode" (PDF). Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Ho Web Sketch: Ho writing" (PDF). Livingtongues.org. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Anderson, edited by Gregory S. (2008). The Munda languages (1. publ. ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-32890-X.

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