Austroasiatic · ISO 639-3 hoc
Ho Language हो जागार
Ho is an Austroasiatic language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Varang Kshiti, Devanagari and Latin scripts.
Where Ho is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Ho language
Ho (हो जागार) is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 367th most spoken language in the world — just behind Maasina Fulfulde (1.5 million) and ahead of Kafa (1.5 million). It belongs to the Austroasiatic language family and, more precisely, to the Ho-Mundari group within the North Munda branch.
Where is Ho spoken?
Ho is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (1.4 million).
Ho is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Ho is written in the Varang Kshiti, Devanagari, Latin and 2 more scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Mundari and Santali.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 hoc.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.