Dr. Luke Horo is a Living Tongues Institute Fellow and Post-doctoral Researcher for the South Asia Region. He is based in Guwahati, Assam, India and has been a part of the Living Tongues Team since June 2018.

In terms of field expeditions, Dr. Horo has taken part in projects with Living Tongues researchers Dr. Greg Anderson and Dr.  Bikram Jora among Gutob speakers in Odisha. He has also worked among speakers of the North Munda language Korku and the isolate language Nihali in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra states. Furthermore, he has helped document Sora, Mundari, Santali, Assamese, Sadri, Sartang, and Rabha.

Dr. Horo was inspired to start working in the field of language documentation when he completed a language survey of his heritage language, Mundari. He felt an ethical obligation to work towards the preservation and documentation of lesser documented languages. He hopes to see other linguistics students explore under-documented languages through the course of their study. Dr. Horo is currently working on a project called Sora Typological Characteristics: Towards a Re-Evaluation of South Asian Human History.

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, as well as the only documentation of Assam Sora. Dr. Horo defended his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology–Guwahati in 2018.

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.