In order to represent etymology of Ho words in orthography, three different ways to represent elongated vowels is to be employed, because there are three ways in which elongated consonants are formed in Ho. We do not give much thought to how elongated vowels have occur in Ho, but they are not that common in other Munda languages like Mundari and Santali. Elongated vowels are a result of three factors which influence Ho phonology. In order to preserve these sources, we need to spell them differently. Below are three different reasons why we have elongated vowels, and then there are proposed spellings. 1. By omission of ड़ in old words. हाड़ाम > हाऽम, तुड़ु > तूऽ 2. By omission of h in old words. बाहा > बाऽ, साहान > साऽन 3. Naturally long vowels in words with single syllables. लोऽ, जोऽ (Note that these words do not have elongated vowels as a result of omissions, these are there because a single syllabled word cannot have a short vowel.) For No. 1, when converting words, onl