Hindi

Here you'll find some useful resources to help you to understand the Hindi Language better. It's spoken by almost 500 million people over the world, the third most spoken language. It's the official language of India, the country with the second largest population in the world. From the History to useful phrases, we're trying to offer a general overview about the language in order to give you a way to get started in Hindi learning. We do NOT aim to write all about Hindi Language, it is almost impossible to achieve :-). But we DO want to hear from you suggestions to improve the site and offer you the content YOU consider more useful. Please fell free to contact us.

Hindi is the most widely spoken language of the Republic of India, centered principally in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in the north-central part of the country. Its 275 million speakers rank it as one of the leading languages of the world but it is, nevertheless, understood by only about one-third of India's population. When independence was achieved in 1947, Hindi was chosen as India's national language, but its failure to win acceptance among speakers of other languages has forced it to share the title of official language with English.
Speakers of Hindi are also to be found in many scattered parts of the world. In the newly independent countries of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, and Fiji, in the Pacific, it is spoken by about a third of the population. There are also sizable bodies of speakers in Trinidad, Guyana, and Surinam.

Like most of the languages of northern India, Hindi is descended from Sanskrit. Hindi and Urdu, the official language of Pakistan, are virtually the same language, though the former is written in the Sanskrit characters and the latter in the Perso-Arabic script. Pure Hindi derives most of its vocabulary from Sanskrit, while Urdu contains many words from Persian and Arabic. The basis of both languages is actually Hindustani, the colloquial form of speech that served as the lingua franca of much of India for more than four centuries.

Going desi with Hindi language (bhasha) seems to be a positive step in sync with the global village theme which will reap you good benefits whether it is just to sound natural to your Hindustani friends or you want it help build cultural ties.

But how easy or difficult will it be for an average person to understand and learn Hindi language?

It's not difficult at all. But it sure depends on how motivated you are.

This site is designed to help Hindi language learners. Use the growing collection of tutorials and other resources available here and you will find learning Hindi language is quite easy.

Get some idea of how Hindi language writing appears with the help of these news reports in Hindi.

Taptilok | Hindi Literary MagaTaptilok | Hindi Literary Magazine | Magazine of Hindi Languagezine | Magazine of Hindi Language

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.

The primary source of Hindi is 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. Like Sanskrit, Hindi is written in the Dev Naagari script, which is common to several other Indian languages as well. Much of the vocabulary of Hindi comes from Sanskrit, though Hindi also has a special relationship with Urdu. Their grammar and much of their vocabulary are virtually identical.

Hindi is a rich and melodic language, spoken, written and studied widely throughout the world. Learning it will open the door to a fascinating and diverse culture that spans thousands of years of uninterrupted history.

In the spring 1999 semester, with the support and guidance of CLS - Center for Language Studies, and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area
Studies at Yale, an introductory course in Hindi was offered. Today five Hindi courses in three levels of Hindi are being offered.

At the Yale Hindi program, we believe language is a way of thinking, a way of life, and so our students are required from the very beginning to think in the language being learnt.

We believe true proficiency in any language can only be achieved through a deeper understanding of its parent and/or related culture(s), and to achieve this goal we instruct through combination of texts, written assignments, audio-visual material including contemporary Hindi films and songs, and computer based assignments. These courses are geared towards increasing oral, aural, written and reading proficiency in the language.

We are a non-profit body dedicated to the teaching of Hindi. We run Hindi classes in Singapore, primarily for school-going children but also for adults at basic, intermediate and advanced levels. We have been operational since Jan 1990.

With 68 classes having more than 2,100 students, we are the biggest Hindi-language institution in Singapore and one of the largest institutions in the world dedicated to the teaching of the Hindi language. Classes are held at four Hindi Centres and thirty-six schools participating in a Parallel Hindi Programme (PHP). They cover the entire spectrum of formal general Hindi education in Singapore, from Pre-Primary to Pre-University (ages 4 and up). Classes at the Hindi Centres are held once a week, either on Saturday mornings or afternoons. Classes in the PHP are held at the schools themselves during second-language periods.

The Hindi Society is run completely by volunteers; it is part of the self-help initiative that the Hindi-speaking community has embarked upon to enable students to study Hindi and to preserve their cultural traditions. Teachers are paid an honorarium for their services.

Hindi Kids, a children's educational production company, believes in the value of making learning fun. Our first show, "Chalo Hindi Bolay" (Lets Speak Hindi), is original and unique in its approach to entertaining, educating diversity to young children. Our mission is to create a series that kids and parents would enjoy and at the same time learn about their language and heritage. Our aim is to teach children in a fun way and hold a young mind's attention so that they can learn naturally.

The basic concept of this site is to promote the Hindi Language, which is the mother toungue of Most of the Indians and is also the National Language of India.

The Objective is to promote this language through-out the world in "Audio & Literature" form.

All sorts of Contribution from everyone around the world in the form of Stories, Poems, Articles etc. both in Audio & Literature format are welcome and will be published on this site if found appropriate.

A community of Hindi learners.

We are working on a fun and effective online course which will introduce you to the basics of the Hindi language. You will learn to understand, properly pronounce and read and write Hindi. You will learn useful, frequently used vocabulary and phrases.

The Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya came into existence through an Act of Parliament which received the assent of the President on January 08, 1997 and was published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary on the same date. This is an act to establish and incorporate a teaching University for the promotion and development of Hindi language and literature, through teaching and research, with a view to enabling Hindi to achieve greater functional efficiency and recognition as a major international language and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

The word 'Shabdkosh' is the Romanized English spelling of the hindi word for 'Dictionary'. This website debuted in 2003 as an attempt to provide users with easy access to a English-Hindi dictionary.

This dictionary site provides facility to search in English as well as in Hindi. For English searches, standard interface is provided. For Hindi searches, we provide several keyboard layouts that you can use.

This site also welcomes user contributions. We welcome you to help us make this dictionary better. Please click here to contribute!

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Hindi,an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is the official language of the Union government of India. It is part of a dialect continuum of the Indic family, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu, and Gujarati