Hindi
Hindi
(हिन्दी)
is a Indo-European language
with approximately 600M speakers speakers.
It is written using the
Devanagari (Nagari)
script.
Its BCP 47 language code is hi.
Hindi (हिन्दी) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly in northern and central India. It is one of the two official languages of the Government of India (alongside English) and serves as a lingua franca across many Indian states. Hindi is written in the Devanagari script, read left-to-right.
Modern Standard Hindi shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Urdu; the two are sometimes collectively called Hindustani. Hindi has a rich literary tradition and is the language of Bollywood, India's prolific film industry.
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Language Facts
- BCP 47 Code
- hi
- ISO 639-3
- hin
- Status
- living
- Speakers
- 600M speakers
- Language Family
- Indo-European
- Scripts
- 1
- Primary Script
- Devanagari (Nagari)
Data sourced from Unicode CLDR and ISO 639-3. Last updated April 20, 2026.