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. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
Halbi is an Indo-Aryan language 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.