Hindi

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Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language widely spoken across northern and central India and used in government, education, media, and popular culture.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form Occurrences
Hindustani 9
Modern Standard Hindi 3
Standard Hindi 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
modern language
standardized language
basedOnDialect Khari Boli
closelyRelatedTo Bhojpuri
Maithili
Rajasthani
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
hasAlternativeName Khari Boli
surface form: Khari Boli Hindi

Hindi
surface form: Modern Standard Hindi
hasISO6391Code hi
hasISO6392Code hin
hasISO6393Code hin
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative alignment in perfective aspect
gendered nouns
postpositions
hasPhonologicalFeature retroflex consonants
hasRegister Sanskritized Hindi
hasStandardForm Khari Boli
surface form: Modern Standard Hindi
hasStandardizationPeriod 19th century
hasWritingDirection left-to-right
influencedBy Arabic
English
Persian
Sanskrit
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
officialStatus official language of several Indian states
official language of the Government of India
officialStatusInCountry India
partOf Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
primaryRegion Central India
northern India
surface form: Northern India
regulatingBody Central Hindi Directorate
Ministry of Home Affairs, India
surface form: Department of Official Language (India)
scriptType abugida
standardFormOf Khari Boli
surface form: Hindustani
usedAs lingua franca in North India
usedIn Bollywood cinema
Indian Parliament proceedings (along with English)
Indian literature
Indian media
Indian popular music
Indian television
education in India
Government of India
surface form: government of India
writingSystem Devanagari script
surface form: Devanagari numeral system

Devanagari script

Referenced by (293)

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Champaran languageSpoken Hindi
Dandi languageSpoken Hindi
Kullu languageSpoken Hindi
Mussoorie languageSpoken Hindi
Nana Sahib languageSpoken Hindi
Orissa languageSpoken Hindi
subject surface form: Rani Lakshmibai
subject surface form: Sam Manekshaw
Akhnur languageUsed Hindi
BRICS languageUsed Hindi
Jaitpur languageUsed Hindi
subject surface form: Legislative Assembly (British India)
this entity surface form: Hindustani
Nagwa languageUsed Hindi
this entity surface form: Standard Hindi
Jabalpur localLanguage Hindi
Mirzapur localLanguage Hindi
Hindi Belt majorLanguage Hindi
Indians majorLanguage Hindi
Nagpur majorLanguage Hindi
Nashik majorLanguage Hindi
subject surface form: Northern India