Direct links, to save you time: Ethnologue: https://www.ethnologue.com/language/hoc Scriptsource: http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_detail&key=Wara Norman Zide: http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/zide1999three.pdf
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2017-06-03 16:18 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > There is a proposal to add support for the Ho language to transaltewiki: > https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Request_ > to_start_a_new_language. > > It is for now not implemented, and the explanation is that the request is > to do it in the Warang Citi writing system, and Ethnologue says that it is > "no longer in use". I strongly suspect that Ethnologue is not quite correct > on this matter, because there are three sources that contradict it: > * the encoding proposal by Michael Everson > * the page at Scriptsource to which Ethnologue itself links > * an article by Norman Zide, linked from Scriptsource > > I have no direct knowledge of this language, but the sources above seem > more convincing to me than Ethnologue itself. > > The remaining question, however, is whether we should add more than one > variant for this language (hoc-wara, hoc-deva, and perhaps hoc-latn) or > should it be just hoc, and assumed to be written in Warang Citi? > > Thanks! > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore >
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