Language code: ho
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ho
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The table below provides technical details for the Hiri Motu language, designated by the ho code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Hiri Motu Native Hiri Motu |
| Family | Motu |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Western Hiri MotuEastern Hiri Motu |
| Related languages | MotuKoitaKeaparaMekeo |
| Key facts | Developed as a simplified form of Motu to facilitate trade and colonial administrationIts name comes from the traditional Hiri trading voyages of the Motu peoplePhonology uses only 14 consonants and 5 vowelsNouns lack obligatory marking for number or genderFluent speaker numbers are declining as younger generations adopt Tok Pisin and English |
| Sample phrase | Ete, ia guari? |
| Character encodings | |
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Hiri Motu is a pidgin language derived from Motu and is related to the Austronesian languages. It is one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea and uses the Latin script for writing. While it was once more widely spoken, the number of fluent speakers has been declining, and current estimates suggest that there are fewer than 100,000 speakers worldwide.
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*The graph shows a rough estimate of Hiri Motu speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ