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Countries

Countries

Fiji, India

Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0 46
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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

Alphabets

44
Rank: 24 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

11
Rank: 8 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

33
Rank: 23 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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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
Rank: 3 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Marwari

Where They Speak

Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.00
Rank: 24 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Bundeli

Where They Speak

Bundelkhand

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.00
Rank: 24 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

21
Rank: 19 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

380.00 million
Rank: 5 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

4.70 %
Rank: 5 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

260.00 million
Rank: 4 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

120.00 million
Rank: 6 (Overall)
0.01 400
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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
Rank: 5 (Overall)
1 120
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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

-

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.