About Hindi

Hindi is a rich and melodic language, spoken, written and studied widely throughout the world. Hindi is the national language of India and is spoken by almost half a billion people, not only in India but also in other countries in the world. Hindi is the primary language spoken in Northern and Central India. Hindi is the second most spoken language in the world after Chinese. It allows one to communicate with a far wider variety of people in India than English which is only spoken by around five percent of the population. Most of schools throughout the India and as well as outside India teach Hindi as part of their curriculum. Although you may not be stuck up anywhere in the country if you are familiar with English, but it is always desirable and enjoyable to know a few words of Hindi, to communicate with the common people of India. If you learn this language, then you will be able to know about the fascinating and diverse culture of India that spans thousands of years, religion and current affairs.

History of Hindi
Hindi became the official language of India on 26th January, 1965. Hindi is an Indo-European language, of the Indo-Aryan subfamily. It derives much of its formal and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit, one of the most ancient spoken and written languages in the world and one of the earliest members of the Indo-European language family. Although, Hindi also has a special relationship with Urdu as their grammar and much of their vocabulary are virtually identical. With independence, a common language had to be decided. The matter was put to vote and Hindi won by a single vote. Hindi, however, was only one of the many regional languages of India. Later, various famous epics and plays were written in the Hindi like Ramacharitamanas, Bhagvad Gita and the Mahabharata. Today, Hindi is widely spoken in almost all the states of India, especially

in the northern and central India. Hindi is spoken exactly as it is written so it is very easy to learn and read.

Hindi shares with English and most other European languages the same ancestral roots. They evolved from a language thought to have been spoken in Central Asia around 5,000 BC, called by linguists the Indo-European parent language. For this reason (and because of the 200-year influence of the British in India), many basic words in Hindi are the same as or similar to their equivalent in English. English also continues to be an administrative and official language of the central Government, besides Hindi.

Hindi Script and its Letters
Like Sanskrit, Hindi is written in the Dev Naagari script, which is common to several other Indian languages as well. Hindi is normally spoken using a combination of 52 sounds, ten vowels and 40 consonants. There are 11 vowels and 36 consonants in Hindi. Pronunciation in Hindi is relatively easy since, unlike English, letters are always pronounced exactly the same way. Once you have learned the letters, reading is straight forward and simple. There is a well known philosophy which says that when one meditates on the specific sounds of the Dev Naagari alphabet, the written forms appear spontaneously in the mind. More....

Other Languages of India
Besides Hindi, India has 18 officially recognized languages which is an evolution in land of numerous dialects. The Indian National Congress had advocated the formation of linguistic provinces. The Constitution, therefore, recognized Hindi as the official language of the States and English was recognized as the authoritative legislative and judicial language. A schedule – the 8th Schedule – was added to the Constitution to indicate all regional languages statutorily recognized.

The Schedule contains the following 18 languages:
1. Assamese 2. Bengali 3. Gujarati 4. Hindi 5. Kannada 6. Kashmiri 7. Malayalam 8. Marathi 9. Oriya 10. Punjabi 11. Sanskrit 12. Tamil 13. Telugu 14. Urdu 15. Sindhi 16. Nepali 17. Manipur 18. Konkani.

Of the 18 languages listed in the Schedule, all except three- Sanskrit, Kashmiri and Sindhi – are official languages of one or the other state.

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