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Hindi Hindi Hindi


Countries

Countries
Fiji, India

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
India

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate

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.

Similar To
Urdu

Derived From
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
44 24

Phonology

How Many Vowels
11 8

How Many Consonants
33 23

Scripts
Devanagari

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
4 3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings

Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)

Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)

How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)

Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)

Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)

Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)

Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)

Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)

Sorry
खेद (Khēda)

Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)

I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)

Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)

Dialects

Dialect 1
Khariboli

Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh

How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00 2

Dialect 2
Marwari

Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh

How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00 3

Dialect 3
Bundeli

Where They Speak
Bundelkhand

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00 4

Total No. Of Dialects
21 19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
380.00 million 5

Speaking Population
4.70 % 5

Native Speakers
260.00 million 4

Second Language Speakers
120.00 million 6

Native Name
हिन्दी

Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli

French Name
hindi

German Name
Hindi

Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]

Ethnicity
Hindustani people

History

Origin
7th Century

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian

Branch
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Standard Hindi

Language Position
5 5

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
hi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
hin

ISO 639 2/B
hin

ISO 639 3
hin

ISO 639 6
hins

Glottocode
hind1269

Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic

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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.

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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.

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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.

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