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Hindi

Hindi \Hin"di\, n. [Prop. a Per. adj. meaning, Indian, Hindoo.] The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindus. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written.
--Whitworth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Hindi

1825 as an adjective; 1880 as a language name, from Hind "India" (see Hindu) + -i, suffix expressing relationship.

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Hindi

Hindi , sometimes spelled हिंदी, also called Modern Standard Hindi , is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language. (For information on the phonology, grammar, and other features of the spoken language, please see Hindustani language.) Hindi is one of the official languages of the Union of India, and the lingua franca of the Hindi belt languages.

Hindi is the fourth-most natively spoken language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish and English.Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in Nationalencyklopedin. Asterisks mark the

2010 estimates for the top dozen languages.

Hindi (disambiguation)
  • Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language or languages descended from Sanskrit, defined with various degrees of scope:

:* In the narrowest and in English perhaps most common sense, Hindi is Modern Standard Hindi, a literary style and standardized register of Hindustani.

:* In a slightly broader sense, Hindi is spoken Hindustani, as used for example in Hindi Cinema ( Bollywood). In this sense Hindi is essentially the same as Urdu.

:*In an intermediate sense, Hindi is the Central Zone dialects of Western Hindi (including Hindustani) and Eastern Hindi (including Fijian Hindi).

:*In the widest sense, "Hindi" covers the language varieties of the so-called Hindi belt: Western Hindi, Eastern Hindi, Bihari (including Caribbean Hindustani but sometimes excluding Bhojpuri and Maithili), Pahari (excluding Nepali and in recent years Dogri), and often Rajasthani.

Usage examples of "hindi".

Early and Middle Persian, hieroglyphics and cuneiform and Aramaic, classical and modern Arabic, the usual knowledge of Greek and Hebrew and Latin and the European tongues, Hindi where relevant and all sciences where necessary for his work.

He slipped into Bengali, then a smattering of French, then a torrent of Hindi.

Hindi, a language spoken in India and written in the Devanagari script.

Burmese and Gujrati have been completed and the latter is even printed and circulated the Guardian feels we should concentrate upon the Hindi and Urdu translations.

Their language today was basically a corruption of English, although it included much of the noncommon languages of the early settlers, including Hindi, Urdu, Ibo, Arabic, Amharic, Bantu, and Flemish, to name some of them.

Only a fellow Parsi would know that English had been his veritable mother tongue, and that the doctor would have learned his Hindi in school.

English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Chinese, and accompanied by a bright yellow rendering of the universal sign for nuclear radiation.

I am also fluent in my native Sindi, in Pashtun, in Hindi and Panjabi.

He hears Tamil, Hindi, and begins curiously to feel a sense of apartness, something in the smell of the place, the amplified voice in the distance.

It was still all Billy with Mimi: his plans to make Hindi movies in England and America, importing the top stars, Vinod Khanna, Sridevi, to cavort in front of Bradford Town Hall and the Golden Gate Bridge -- "it's some sort of tax dodge, obviously," Mimi carolled gaily.

Worn-out babies cried incessantly, and a Hindi pop tune blared over the din, showing little consideration for those unlucky travelers hoping to catch a little shut-eye before boarding their planes, and the spicy scent of hot chai tea rose from more than one cup or thermos bottle clutched in the grip of a prospective passenger.

My concern about the traffic wasn't overly allayed by the large white signs in Bengali, Hindi, and English that sat in the center of several chaotic traffic circles we negotiated: DRIVE MORE CAREFULLY!