Language Ho people
ho people speak ho language, austroasiatic language closely related mundari , more distantly related languages of southeast asia such khmer , mon. austroasiatic languages of india, including ho, inflected fusional languages unlike distant relatives in southeast asia analytic languages. difference in typology due extensive language contact unrelated indo-aryan , dravidian languages. phonology of ho has been influenced nearby unrelated languages. there @ least 3 dialects of ho: lohara, chaibasa , thakurmunda. dialects mutually intelligible approximately 92% of ho speakers able understand narrative discourse in both chaibasa , thakurmunda dialects. divergent dialects in extreme south , east of ho territory.
while fewer 5 percent of ho speakers literate in language, ho typically written in devanagari, latin, scripts. native alphabet, called warang citi , invented lako bodra in 20th century, exists.
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