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Preferred term

hlbHalbi  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Halbi (also Bastari, Halba, Halvas, Halabi, Halvi, Mahari, Mehari) is an Eastern zone Indo-Aryan language of the Oriya subgroup, spoken by about 500,000 individuals across the central part of India. It is considered a dilect of Oriya language by linguist.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.

Entry terms

  • Halbi language

ISO 639-3 code

  • hlb

Notation

  • hlb

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/hlb

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