Also known as Ho jagara, Ho jagar, Kol language, Kolha language, Ho language, Larka Kol, Ho Munda
Munda language of the Austro-Asiatic language family spoken primarily in India
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ d͡ʑägär ]
- Native to
- India
- Ethnicity
- Ho people
- Native speakers
- 1,421,418 (2011 census)
- Language family
- Austroasiatic Munda North Kherwarian Mundaric Ho
- Writing system
- Warang Chiti Devanagari Latin script Odia script Bengali–Assamese
- Official language in
- India Jharkhand (additional)
- Iso 639 3
- hoc
- Glottolog
- hooo1248
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 1500000
- exact match
- phoible.org/languages/hooo1248
- Wikimedia language code
- hoc
- P10369
- German National Library
- native label
- 𑢹𑣉𑣉 𑣎𑣋𑣜
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Ho (Warang Chiti: 𑢹𑣉𑣉 𑣎𑣋𑣜, Ho pronunciation: [hoː dʑägär]) is a Munda language of the Austroasiatic language family spoken primarily in India by about 2.2 million people (0.202% of India's population) per the 2001 census. It is spoken by the Ho, Munda, Kolha and Kol tribal communities of Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Assam and is written using Warang Chiti script. Devanagari, Latin and Odia script are also used, although native speakers are said to prefer Warang Chiti, invented by Lako Bodra.
The name Ho is derived from the native word hoo meaning human being, with cognates in its sister languages hoṛo in Mundari, ho̠ṛ in Santali and koro in Korku.