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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 500000 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.

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