ISO 639-3 · hinhin
Indo-European family
Hindi
हिन्दी
Hindi is a language of the Western Hindi branch (Indo-European), spoken in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Fiji. Wikidata counts 341 m first-language speakers (2019) and 274.3 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “Indo-Aryan language spoken in India”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
hin- ISO 639-1
hi- Glottocode
hind1269- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- 23.00, 80.00
- Wikipedia
- 224 language editions
341 mfirst-language speakers
274.3 msecond-language speakers
4countries
1scripts
5levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Hindi · हिन्दी |
|---|---|
| Also called | Hindi language, Modern Standard Hindi |
| L1 speakers | 341,000,000 (2019) |
| L2 speakers | 274,266,900 (2016) |
| Written in | Devanagari |
| Official in | India |
| Grammatical cases | 3 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Hindi
The branches above Hindi, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in India
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