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Modern Standard Hindi ( Hindi: आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, romanized : Ādhunik Mānak Hindī ), [14] commonly referred to as Hindi (Hindi: हिन्दी, [a] Hindī ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in North India, and serves as the lingua franca of the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern ...
- Romanized Hindi
Hinglish is the macaronic hybrid use of Indian English and...
- Hindi Belt
Hindi is part of the Indo-Aryan dialect continuum that lies...
- Hindi Day
Hindi Day (Hindi: हिन्दी दिवस, romanized: hindī divas) is...
- Devanagari Transliteration
Devanagari is an Indic script used for many Indo-Aryan...
- Hindi (Disambiguation)
Language Hindustani proper (red). Dark grey are the other...
- Old Hindi
Old Hindi, or Khariboli was the earliest stage of the...
- Romanized Hindi
During this time Hindustani was the language of both Hindus and Muslims. The non-communal nature of the language lasted until the British Raj in India, when in 1837 Hindustani in the Persian script (i.e. Urdu) replaced Persian as the official language and was made co-official along with English.
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Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European ...
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- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
Yes, the Hindi language has two genders: masculine and feminine. Although this concept doesn’t exist in English, most Indo-European languages have genders. Every object in Hindi is either masculine or feminine. For example, a bus (बस) is feminine, while a room (कमरा) is masculine.
Vocabulary. Lexical comparison leads to more specific data about the history of the Italic languages. There are linguistic boundaries called isoglosses that may date back to pre-Italic history: e.g., Oscan humuns, Latin homines, and Gothic gumans ‘human beings’ derive from an Indo-European root that meant ‘earth’; and Oscan anamúm ‘mind’ (accusative singular) is directly related ...
Now, all of these dialects are also covered under the term Hindi. Basic Linguistic Features: Hindi shares major linguistic characteristics with other Indo-Aryan languages. It has ten vowels: a, a:, i, i:, u, u:, e, o, ɛ, and ɔ. The length of vowels is phonemic. All vowels can be nasalized, and nasalization is phonemic.
It is the main language in India. About 800 million people speak Hindi in India. The Devanāgarī script is used to write Hindi. Previously Hindi was known as Hindui. It is also the official national language of India. Hindi is widely written, spoken and understood in North India and some other places in India. In 1997, a survey found that 45% ...