Ho
Lands
Kolhan region of Jharkhand and northern Odisha, with communities in West Bengal and Bihar, India
Countries India
Facts 3
Culture
The Ho call themselves Ho, Hodoko or Horo, words that mean human in their own language.
Source: Dr. Ramdayal Munda Tribal Welfare Research Institute, Jharkhand, Ho (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Today
In Odisha, Ho farmers grow paddy, maize and ragi, tend kitchen gardens, and gather mushrooms, mahua and greens from the forest.
Source: Odisha State Tribal Museum (SCSTRTI, Government of Odisha), Odisha State Tribal Museum: Ho (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Language
The Ho language has its own recently devised alphabet, Warang Citi, which is encoded in the Unicode Standard and used by a yearly and a biweekly publication.
Source: Unicode Consortium, Chapter 13, South and Central Asia-II (The Unicode Standard, Version 18.0) (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
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