Welcome to Living Tongues, Dr. Luke Horo!

We would like to wish a warm welcome to our newest associate, Dr. Luke Horo! We are pleased to have him on our team in the role of Institute Fellow and Post-doctoral Researcher for the South Asia region. Horo will help take the lead on phonetic analysis on upcoming projects.

Luke Horo & Bikram Jora interview Korku speakers. India, 2017

Horo, whose heritage language is Mundari, defended his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology–Guwahati in 2018. He is the only adivasi (indigenous) scholar with a specialty on laboratory and field phonetics currently active in India and has done the only experimental phonetic study on any variety of a Munda language to date and the only documentation of Assam Sora.

Dr. Horo has presented papers at a number of international conferences in Singapore, in Siem Reap, and in Korea in 2018, as well as a host of domestic and international conferences in India. Several such papers have appeared in print already, with others under review or in press. Dr. Horo has taken part in field expeditions with Dr. Greg Anderson and Dr. Bikram Jora among Gutob speakers in Odisha, and among speakers of the North Munda language Korku and the isolate language Nihali in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra states.