Hindi langauge definition of Hindi langauge in the Free Online Encyclopedia.

Hindi (hĭn`dē), language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian Indo-Iranian, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by more than a billion people, chiefly in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka (see The Indo-European Family of Languages , table).
..... Click the link for more information. subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. The official language of India, Hindi is the written or literary variant of Hindustani Hindustani (hĭnd
..... Click the link for more information. that is used by Hindus. It is written in the Devanagari alphabet employed for Sanskrit Sanskrit (săn`skrĭt), language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages
..... Click the link for more information. and has a vocabulary of Indic origin. There are two main dialectal groups of the Hindi language: Western Hindi and Eastern Hindi. The former has four principal dialects. The latter is the medium of an extensive and outstanding literature. Some 300 million people speak Hindi as their primary language; most of them live in India.

Bibliography

See E. Bender, Hindi Grammar and Reader (1967); V. R. Jagannathan, Handbook of Modern Hindi Usage (1981); M. C. Shapiro, A Primer of Modern Standard Hindi (1989).

Hindi

1. a language or group of dialects of N central India. It belongs to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family and is closely related to Urdu

2. a formal literary dialect of this language, the official language of India, usually written in Nagari script

3. a person whose native language is Hindi

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