Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi, commonly referred to as Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of the government of India, and is... Wikipedia

• Pronunciation:  hi
• Native to:  India
• Region:  Hindi Belt
• Native speakers:  L2: million (2020), Total: million (2011–2020)
• Language family:  Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Indo-Aryan Western Hindi Hindustani Hindi
• Early forms:  Shauraseni Prakrit Apabhraṃśa Old Hindi Hindustani Rekhta Hindi
• Writing system:  Devanagari (official), Kaithi (historical), Mahajani (historical), Laṇḍā (historical), Devanagari Braille
• Signed forms:  Indian Signing System
• Official language in:  India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Ladakh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal (additional), Fiji
• Recognised minority, language in:  South Africa (protected language), United Arab Emirates (official court language), Mauritius (as a cultural language)
• Regulated by:  Central Hindi Directorate
• ISO 639-1:  hi
• ISO 639-2:  hin
• ISO 639-3:  hin
• Glottolog:  hind1269
• Linguasphere:  59-AAF-qf
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo