I finally received a reply from a Ho speaker who is working in a major
literacy project for that language. According to him, literacy
activities in Odisha State are conducted in the Odiya script, and in
Jharkhand State in the Devanagri script. He is not aware of anyone using
the Warang Citi script.
Of course, it is good to correct any wrong information given in the
Ethnologue (and the documents written in Warang Citi are out there!).
However, we could also question the wisdom of setting up a Ho wiki
project in Warang Citi when the major publications in that language are
in Odisha and Devanagri. I concede that the incubator is a place for
hobby horses ...
Fwiw,
Oliver
On 06-Jul-17 18:38, Amir E. Aharoni 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] <mailto:[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
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5__qJoEj3L8MHJCVk9WX2t1dnc/view>
(click the download button at the top of the page)
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2017-06-07 12:46 GMT+03:00 Oliver Stegen <[email protected]
<mailto:[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_start_a_new_language.
<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Request_to_start_a_new_language.>
[2]
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/hoc/
<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] <mailto:[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
<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_start_a_new_language
<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?
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