Editing Ho language (section)

==Phonology==
[[File:OpenSpeaks-Hoc-Ruum Sakam-Ladura Singh Haiburu-Lalit Singh Banra-Body Parts.webm|thumb|A Ho speaker demonstrates and says the names of body parts in Ho]]

===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! colspan="2" |
![[Labial consonant|Labial]]
![[Dental consonant|Dental]]/<br />[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]]
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
|{{IPA link|m}}
|{{IPA link|n}}
|({{IPA link|ɳ}})
|{{IPA link|ɲ}}
|{{IPA link|ŋ}}
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Stop consonant|Stop]]/<br />[[Affricate]]
!<small>[[Voicelessness|voiceless]]</small>
|{{IPA link|p}}
|{{IPA link|t}}
|{{IPA link|ʈ}}
|{{IPA link|t͡ɕ}}
|{{IPA link|k}}
|{{IPA link|ʔ}}
|-
!<small>[[Voice (phonetics)|voiced]]</small>
|{{IPA link|b}}
|{{IPA link|d}}
|{{IPA link|ɖ}}
|{{IPA link|d͡ʑ}}
|{{IPA link|ɡ}}
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
|
|{{IPA link|s}}
|
|
|
|{{IPA link|h}}
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
|{{IPA link|w}}
|{{IPA link|l}}
|
|{{IPA link|j}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Tap consonant|Tap]]
|
|{{IPA link|ɾ}}
|{{IPA link|ɽ}}
|
|
|
|}

* /b, ɖ/ can be heard as preglottalized [ˀb̥̚, ˀɖ̥̚] when in word-final position.
* /b/ can be heard as a fricative [β] in intervocalic positions.
* /ɳ/ has a limited phonemic distribution, and is typically a realization of /n/ before retroflex sounds.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pucilowski |first=Anna |title=Topics in Ho (𑢹𑣉𑣉) morphophonology and morphosyntax |publisher=University of Oregon |year=2013}}</ref>
* /w/ and /j/ only occur in medial or final positions.

===Vowels===
Ho has 5 basic vowels, these can be short, long, nasalized and long and nasalized. Long vowels either result from gemination of short vowels resulting from loss of intervocalic consonants or due to the bimoraic constraint inherited from Proto-Munda.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/mundalanguages0000unse |title=The Munda languages |date=2008 |publisher=London : Routledge |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-415-32890-6}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+Oral vowels
!
![[Front vowel|Front]]
![[Central vowel|Central]]
![[Back vowel|Back]]
|- style="text-align: center;"
![[Close vowel|Close]]
|{{IPA link|i}} {{IPA link|iː}}
|
|{{IPA link|u}} {{IPA link|uː}}
|- style="text-align: center;"
![[Mid vowel|Mid]]
|{{IPA link|e}} {{IPA link|eː}}
|
|{{IPA link|o}} {{IPA link|oː}}
|- style="text-align: center;"
![[Open vowel|Open]]
|
|{{IPA link|a}} {{IPA link|aː}}
|
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+Nasal vowels
!
![[Front vowel|Front]]
![[Central vowel|Central]]
![[Back vowel|Back]]
|- style="text-align: center;"
![[Close vowel|Close]]
|{{IPA link|ĩ}}
|
|{{IPA link|ũ}}
|- style="text-align: center;"
![[Mid vowel|Mid]]
|{{IPA link|ẽ}}
|
|{{IPA link|õ}}
|- style="text-align: center;"
![[Open vowel|Open]]
|
|{{IPA link|ã}}
|
|}