Hindi | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-08

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi


00:01:46 1 Etymology
00:02:17 2 History
00:05:19 2.1 Use outside the Hindi Belt
00:05:49 3 Status
00:09:45 3.1 Outside India
00:11:55 4 Comparison with Modern Standard Urdu
00:12:48 5 Script
00:13:19 5.1 Romanization
00:13:46 6 Vocabulary
00:16:26 6.1 Prakrit
00:16:56 6.2 Sanskrit
00:18:24 7 Media
00:18:33 7.1 Literature
00:21:01 7.2 Internet
00:21:40 8 Sample text
00:23:31 9 See also



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Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी,  IAST:  Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी,  IAST:  Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the official languages of India, along with the English language. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India. However, it is not the national language of India because no language was given such a status in the Indian constitution.Hindi is the lingua franca of the Hindi belt, and to a lesser extent other parts of India (usually in a simplified or pidginized variety such as Bazaar Hindustani or Haflong Hindi). Outside India, several other languages are recognized officially as "Hindi" but do not refer to the Standard Hindi language described here and instead descend from other dialects of Hindustani, such as Awadhi and Bhojpuri. Such languages include Fiji Hindi, which is official in Fiji, and Caribbean Hindustani, which is a recognized language in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname. Apart from specialized vocabulary, spoken Hindi is mutually intelligible with Urdu, another recognized register of Hindustani.
As a linguistic variety, Hindi is the fourth most-spoken first language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish and English. Alongside Urdu as Hindustani, it is the third most-spoken language in the world, after Mandarin and English.