Halbi is an Indo-Aryan language. It is a mixture of Odia and Marathi. It is spoken by around 500,000 people across the central part of India i.e. Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Andra Pradesh. Halbi uses SOV (subject-object-verb) word order, 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.

Native speakers according to 20ll census is 766,297

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