Countries
Fiji, India
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Thailand
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Urdu
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4426
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
116
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3324
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Hai
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
terima kasih
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Apa khabar?
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Selamat pagi
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
sila
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
maaf
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Marwari
Pekal
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Musi
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2124
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
hindi
malais
German Name
Hindi
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Malaysian people
Origin
7th Century
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
554
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
msa
ISO 639 2/B
hin
may
ISO 639 3
hin
zsm
ISO 639 6
hins
may
Glottocode
hind1269
stan1306
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative