With reference to India, the terms ‘Halbi, Ho and Kui’ pertain to
- dance forms of Northwest India
- musical instruments
- pre-historic cave paintings
- tribal languages
Explanation
- Halbi, also known as Bastari, is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken by various tribes in central India.
- Ho, a tribal language, is written in the Warang Chiti script and is the mother tongue of nearly a million tribal people in Odisha and Jharkhand.
- The Kandhas communicate through Kui, a South-Eastern Dravidian language primarily spoken in Odisha and documented in the Odia script.
- The Kui language was also referred to as the Kuinga language during the historical period. It is closely related to the Gondi and Kuvi languages.
- Only Santali, Ho, Soura, Munda, and Kui have a written script in Odisha.
