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Language code: hmo

Technical information about ISO 639 language code hmo

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The table below provides technical details for the Hiri Motu language, designated by the hmo code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

hmo

Name

Official

Hiri Motu

Native

Hiri Motu

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Western Hiri MotuEastern Hiri Motu
Related languages
MotuMekeoKeaparaRoro
Key facts
Created as a simplified trade and police lingua franca from Motu in the late 19th centuryRetains verb-final (SOV) word order despite simplified grammarVocabulary is roughly half shared cognates with MotuSpoken today mainly by older generations and in coastal villages, with speaker numbers steadily decliningStandardized Latin-alphabet spelling conventions were introduced in the 1970s
Sample phrase

Mauri! Oro namona?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Hiri Motu language, identified by the code hmo, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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