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Halbi (also Bastari, Halba, Halvas, Halabi, Halvi, Mahari, Mehari) is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language, transitional between Oriya and Marathi. It is spoken by 500,000 people across the central part of India. It uses SOV word order (subject-object-verb), makes strong use of affixes, and places adjectives before nouns. It is often used as a trade language, but there is a low literacy rate. The Mehari dialect is mutually intelligible with the other dialects only with difficulty. There are an estimated 200,000 second-language speakers (as of 2001). In Chhtisgarh Schooled males are fluent in Hindi. Some first language speakers use Bhatri as second language. Halbi is written in the Oriya & Devanagari script.
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Names (more)

[en] Halbi language
[la] Lingua Halbi
[no] Halbi
[th] ภาษาฮัลบี

Language type : Living

Language resources for Halbi

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Wiktionnaire - Catégorie:halbi [fr]

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ISO 639 Codes

ISO 639-3 : hlb

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Authority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: hlb

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