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Hindi
HIN-dee
Also Known As Hindi (Hindi)
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Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language, one of the two official languages of the government of India, standardized from the Khariboli dialect of the Delhi region and written in the Devanagari script. Spoken Hindi and spoken Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, are close to mutually intelligible at the everyday conversational level, differing mainly in their formal and literary registers, where Hindi draws vocabulary from Sanskrit and Urdu from Persian and Arabic, and in script, Devanagari against the Perso-Arabic alphabet; whether Hindi and Urdu are one spoken language with two literary standards or two languages is a genuinely debated classification rather than a settled one.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker CountFigure is for first-language speakers of Hindi as Ethnologue counts it; Hindi and Urdu speakers combined, or Hindi second-language speakers included, both produce substantially larger and frequently cited totals. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Arabic directly: "Sanskrit and Urdu from Persian and Arabic, and in script, Devanagari against the Perso-Arabic alphabet; whether Hindi and Urdu are one spoken language with two literary standards or two languages is..."
This source names Sanskrit directly: "where Hindi draws vocabulary from Sanskrit and Urdu from Persian and Arabic, and in script, Devanagari against the Perso-Arabic alphabet; whether Hindi and Urdu are one spoken language with two..."
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