Countries
Fiji, India
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
India
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Urdu
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
  
آسف
  
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Khariboli
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Marwari
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00
  
3
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Bundeli
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
4
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million
  
5
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
260.00 million
  
4
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million
  
6
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
हिन्दी
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
hindi
  
arabe
  
German Name
Hindi
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
7th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Indic
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
hi
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hin
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
hin
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
hin
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
hins
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hind1269
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic