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Modern Standard Hindi ( आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [ 9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.
Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; [ 5][ 6] both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages. [ 7][ 8][ 9][ a] Languages spoken by the remaining 2.31% of the ...
Fastest growing languages of India — Hindi (first), Kashmiri (second), Gujarati & Meitei/Manipuri (third), Bengali (fourth) — based on 2011 census of India. Hindi is the fastest growing language of India, followed by Kashmiri in the second place, with Meitei (officially called Manipuri) as well as Gujarati, in the third place, and Bengali ...
Many Hindi speakers with Internet use English Wikipedia instead. Given the great geographic spread of the Hindi language, the contributors to the Hindi project live in various areas around the country. There are also prolific users whose native language is not Hindi, as Hindi is a government language in India alongside English.
Hindi Belt. The Hindi Belt, also known as the Hindi Heartland, is a linguistic region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India where various Northern, Central, Eastern and Western Indo-Aryan languages are spoken, which in a broader sense is termed as Hindi languages, with Standard Hindi (based on Dehlavi) serving as ...
1950: 14 languages were initially included in the Constitution. [ 24] 1967: Sindhi was added by 21st Constitutional Amendment Act. [ 25] 1992: Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali were added by 71st Constitutional Amendment Act [ 26] 2003: Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santali were added by 92nd Constitutional Amendment Act.
Hindustani is a Central Indo-Aryan language based on Khari Boli (Khaṛi Boli). Its origin, development, and function reflect the dynamics of the sociolinguistic contact situation from which it emerged as a colloquial speech. It is inextricably linked with the emergence and standardisation of Urdu and Hindi.
This period also shows further Sanskritization of the Hindi language in literature. Hindi is right now the official language in nine states of India— Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh—and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Post-independence Hindi became ...