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" <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il mailto:amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> 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) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2017-06-07 12:46 GMT+03:00 Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen@sil.org <mailto:oliver_stegen@sil.org>>: 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" <oliver_stegen@sil.org <mailto:oliver_stegen@sil.org>> 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? Thanks! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> <#m_-3903890410751097209_m_7590474068738108996_m_6480647274898251505_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom>_______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom> _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom>_______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom>
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