Countries
Fiji, India
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
India
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Urdu
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4432
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
116
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3323
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
سلام
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
متشکرم
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
صبح به خیر
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
لطفا
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
متاسف
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Marwari
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bundeli
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2112
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million65.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million65.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
فارسی
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
hindi
persan
German Name
Hindi
Persisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Persian people
Origin
7th Century
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Persian
Language Position
523
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
fas
ISO 639 2/B
hin
per
ISO 639 3
hin
pes
ISO 639 6
hins
pers
Glottocode
hind1269
fars1254
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic