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Ho

Munda language of the Austro-Asiatic language family spoken primarily in India
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Summary

Ho is a language[1]. Ho ranks in the top 4% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (613 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ethnic group: Ho people[3]
  • Country: India[4]
  • Instance of: modern language[5]
  • Subclass of: Munda[6]
  • Writing system: Warang Citi[7], Odia[8], Devanagari[9], Latin script[10], Telugu[11], Bangla–Assamese script[12]
  • Wikimedia language code: hoc[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ho language[14]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1,500,000[15]
  • Native label: 𑢹𑣉𑣉 𑣎𑣋𑣜[16]
  • UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[17]
  • Indigenous to: Jharkhand[18], Odisha[19], West Bengal[20], Ho people[21]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/HOC[22], https://grambank.clld.org/languages/hooo1248[23], https://phoible.org/languages/hooo1248[24]
  • Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[25]

Why It Matters

Ho has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] Ho is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

India

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wolfram language entity code → Entity["Language", "Ho"]
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'anp', 'ar', 'bcl', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'ca', 'da', 'diq', 'en', 'eo', 'et'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["Language", "Ho"], Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/53945811|Ho (#53945811)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/1451|Wolf"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Unesco language status → 2 vulnerable
    Subclass of → Munda
    Instance of → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 29181, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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