Ho language

E199648

Ho language is an Austroasiatic language of the Munda family spoken primarily by the Ho people in eastern India, particularly in Jharkhand and Odisha.

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Label Occurrences
Ho language canonical 9

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language
Munda language
language
belongsToMacroArea South Asia
closelyRelatedTo Mundari
surface form: Mundari language

Santhali
surface form: Santali language
country India
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Ho people
family Munda
glottocode hooo1244
hasCaseMarking postpositional case markers
hasCommunityEfforts language revitalization initiatives
hasDialects various regional dialects
hasDigitalPresence Unicode support for Warang Citi
online content and social media use
hasLiterature modern printed literature
oral literature
hasNumeralSystem decimal
hasOfficialRecognition state-level recognition in Jharkhand (education and cultural contexts)
hasPhonemicTone no
hasScriptCreator Lako Bodra (for Warang Citi)
ISO639-3 hoc
languageBranch North Munda
languageFamily Austroasiatic
morphologicalType agglutinative
primaryWordOrder SOV
region eastern India
scriptCreationPeriod mid-20th century (Warang Citi)
spokenIn Chhattisgarh
India
Jharkhand
Orissa
surface form: Odisha

West Bengal
typologicalFeature inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural
rich verbal morphology
use of suffixes for grammatical relations
usedBy Ho community
usedIn folktales
rituals and festivals
traditional songs
usedInEducation primary education in some schools in Jharkhand
usedInMedia community radio programs
local print media
writingSystem Devanagari script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Odia script
Warang Citi script

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Santhali closelyRelatedTo Ho language
Austroasiatic hasLanguage Ho language
Odia script usedFor Ho language
Ho language Ho language
Santalī closelyRelatedTo Ho language
Mundari closelyRelatedTo Ho language
Juang language relatedTo Ho language
Kharia language closelyRelatedTo Ho language