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Ho language resources

For Ho speakers and learners who want to read, type and write Ho online. Type designers and linguists may also find it useful.

Subhashish Panigrahi & Mangu Purty ยท

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This page was first published on OpenSpeaks in 2019.

The Ho language is spoken by over 1.4 million people, mostly in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal, and in Bangladesh. It has been written in Devanagari, Bengali, Odia and Latin scripts. Warang Citi (๐‘ขน๐‘ฃ—๐‘ฃ๐‘ฃœ๐‘ฃŠ ๐‘ฃ๐‘ฃ‚๐‘ฃ•๐‘ฃ‚) is the most widely accepted script for Ho today. It was created by Lako Bodra, a Ho community leader from Jharkhand. UNESCO lists Ho as a vulnerable language.

This page lists free resources for reading, typing and writing Ho in Warang Citi. Many of them were made by Ho speakers. If Warang Citi shows as empty boxes on your screen, install a font from Read and type and reload the page.

Ho speakers are writing a Ho Wikipedia on the Wikimedia Incubator. It will become a full Wikipedia once more people write articles there. Mangu Purty made three videos that show how to join in. They are under Watch and listen, and you can also download them from Wikimedia Commons.

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  • Ho textbooks and dictionary

    Bharatavani, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

    Textbooks from the Ho Language Education Council, Odisha and the Institute of Ancient Culture and Science Society, Odisha. Subjects include Mathematics, Biology Science, Kagol, Poetry, Political Science, Sangam Sagam, Science Kaira and World History. The Ho page has moved, so search for Ho on the Bharatavani site.

  • Hende Sadom

    Made by Mangu Purty

    Ho language tools and data, including a Ho-English web dictionary, a transliteration tool, a verb conjugator and a text corpus.

  • Ho talking dictionary

    Swarthmore College Laboratory for Endangered Languages Research and Documentation

    Spoken Ho words, a video of a teacher teaching the Warang Citi alphabet, and more.

  • Ho Language Education Council, Odisha

    Archived copy; the original link no longer works

    Schools and colleges that teach in Ho, and the council's textbooks.

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Credits and acknowledgements

Thank you, Mangu Purty, for the video tutorials, many of the resource links and the Ho translation, and thank you, Birbasa (Veer Birsa Munda Ho Students Union, Odisha), for helping us make the Warang Citi tutorial.

  • Mangu Purty

    Ho-language scholar, technologist and type designer. Made the Building Ho Wikipedia videos and shared many of the resources listed here.

  • Birbasa (Veer Birsa Munda Ho Students Union, Odisha)

    Student collective. Helped make the video on reading Warang Citi in a browser.

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  • Credit the people whose words, recordings and knowledge you use, by name.
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