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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Fiji, India

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

India

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia, Oceania

1.6 Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.7 Regulated By

Central Hindi Directorate

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
  • In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.

1.9 Similar To

Urdu

1.10 Derived From

Sanskrit Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

44
Rank: 24 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

11
Rank: 8 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

33
Rank: 23 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Devanagari

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

नमस्ते (Namastē)

3.2 Thank You

धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)

3.3 How Are You?

तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)

3.4 Good Night

शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)

3.5 Good Evening

शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)

3.6 Good Afternoon

दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)

3.7 Good Morning

सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)

3.8 Please

कृपया (Kr̥payā)

3.9 Sorry

खेद (Khēda)

3.10 Bye

अलविदा (Alavidā)

3.11 I Love You

मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)

3.12 Excuse Me

मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Khariboli

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

240,000,000.00
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Marwari

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

22,000,000.00
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Bundeli

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Bundelkhand

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

20,000,000.00
Rank: 4 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

21
Rank: 19 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

380.00 million
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

4.70 %
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

260.00 million
Rank: 4 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

120.00 million
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

हिन्दी

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Khadi Boli, Khari Boli

5.3.4 French Name

hindi

5.3.5 German Name

Hindi

5.4 Pronunciation

[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]

5.5 Ethnicity

Hindustani people

6 History

6.1 Origin

7th Century

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

6.2.2 Branch

Indic

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Standard Hindi

6.3.3 Language Position

5
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Indian Signing System

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

hi

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

hin

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

hin

7.3 ISO 639 3

hin

7.4 ISO 639 6

hins

7.5 Glottocode

hind1269

7.6 Linguasphere

59-AAF-qf

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Hindi

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Hindi Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Hindi Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Hindi. Hindi phonology gives Hindi vowels and Hindi consonants. There are 11 vowels and 33 consonants in Hindi language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Hindi is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Hindi language is given in detail in this section.

All Hindi countries

Want to explore all Hindi countries? About Hindi language serves you with all Hindi Speaking Countries. Countries that use Hindi as official language are called as Hindi countries.

  • Countries that use Hindi as their National Language are: India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Hindi as second language are: Hindi is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Hindi greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Hindi Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Hindi language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Hindi language.Learn Hindi greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: नमस्ते (Namastē)
  • Thank you: धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  • Good Morning: सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  • Good Evening: शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  • Good Afternoon: दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)

All Hindi Language Codes

Get to know all Hindi language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Hindi Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.