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On 6 July 2017 at 22:08, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I wrote about it to Ethnologue, and they have replied and said they'll fix
> it!
>
> https://www.ethnologue.com/contribution/317961
>
> I love it when Wikipedia changes sources :)
>
> בתאריך 7 ביוני 2017 01:14 PM,‏ "Amir E. Aharoni" <
> [email protected]> כתב:
>
> If the translatewiki link doesn't work, try this one:
>> http://bit.ly/2s4e9SR
>>
>> And the current Incubator is indeed mostly written in the Warang Citi
>> script: 5 pages in Devanagri and 48 in Warang Citi.
>>
>> You can download a font here:
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5__qJoEj3L8MHJCVk9WX2t1dnc/view
>> (click the download button at the top of the page)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
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>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>>
>> 2017-06-07 12:46 GMT+03:00 Oliver Stegen <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Ok, will do.
>>>
>>> Also, your link below to the 'request a new language'-page on
>>> translatewiki does not work. There seems to be an obligatory period at the
>>> end as part of the link. [1]
>>> Finally, looking at Ho language's page list on Incubator [2], I find
>>> most pages in an unrecognised script whereas [hoc-deva] seems to be just a
>>> handful. Or am I misinterpreting what I see on my screen?
>>>
>>> I'll keep you posted once I get a reply.
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>> [1] https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Request_to_sta
>>> rt_a_new_language.
>>> [2] https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/hoc/
>>>
>>> On 06-Jun-17 16:20, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>>>
>>> Ah, curious. Could you perhaps also ask whether there are any websites
>>> in Ho at all? Or would Wikipedia be the first one?
>>>
>>> בתאריך 6 ביוני 2017 01:20 PM,‏ "Oliver Stegen" <[email protected]>
>>> כתב:
>>>
>>> I had written to a linguist contact with connections to a Ho literacy
>>> and translation project. Interestingly enough, all work and publications of
>>> that project is written in the Odia / Oriya script [1], i.e. in neither of
>>> the three mentioned so far. I've been put in contact with a Ho person on
>>> that project's staff and hope to receive more information about scope and
>>> target group of those publications and their acceptability.
>>>
>>> Fwiw,
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>> [1] http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_
>>> detail&key=Orya
>>>
>>> On 03-Jun-17 15:18, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> There is a proposal to add support for the Ho language to transaltewiki:
>>> https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Request_to_sta
>>> rt_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!
>>>
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