This Austro-Asiatic language is spoken by over a million people belonging to the Ho tribes mainly in the Singhbhum district of Jharkhand and Mayurbhanj and Koenjhar districts of Odisha and parts of West Bengal and Bangladesh.
Its important dialects are Lohara and Chaibasa- Thakurmunda.
It is written in the Devanagari script in Bihar and the Oriya script in Odisha.
Halbi
This Indo-Aryan language is spoken in some parts of Madhya Pradesh (Bastar district), Maharashtra, Odisha, and Andhra Pradesh.