Halbi language
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| Halbi | ||
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| Spoken in: | India | |
| Region: | Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Maharashtra | |
| Total speakers: | 500,000 (2000) | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Group Bengali-Assamese Halbi |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | hlb | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Halbi (also Bastari, Halba, Halvas, Halabi, Halvi, Mahari, Mehari) is an Eastern zone Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali-Assamese subgroup, spoken by about 500,000 individuals 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). Schooled males are fluent in Hindi. Some first language speakers use Bhatri as second language.
Halbi is written in the Devanagari script.
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