where is hindi spoken as a first language
Modern Standard Hindi (à¤®à¤¾à¤¨à¤ à¤¹à¤¿à¤¨à¥à¤¦à¥ mÄnak hindÄ«), or commonly just Hindi (à¤¹à¤¿à¤¨à¥à¤¦à¥ hindÄ«), is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language. Modern Standard Hindi is one of the official languages of India. As of 2009, the best figure Ethnologue could find for speakers of actual Hindustani Hindi was 180 million in 1991. In the 2001 Indian census, 258 million (258,000,000) people in India reported Hindi to be their native language.