Welcome to Halbi Ethnolinguistics, a website dedicated to the Halbi language and its speakers who call home the Bastar District of Chhattisghar in India.
Bastar District is a district of Chhattisgarh where Halbi speakers predominate.
At the time I was doing my research in the late 1960's and 1970's, Bastar was a district of Madhya...
Halbi is the lingua franca of Bastar District in Madhya Pradesh, India, and the mother tongue of approximately 600,000 people. It has been classified as Indo-Aryan, closely related to Oriya,...