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Use this resource to become familiar with the Hindi language and its context in today's world, to discover facts and linguistic data about Hindi and its many varieties, access further information about and resources for learning Hindi, and much more.
Hindi (pronunciation, Devanagari: हिन्दी or हिंदी, IAST: Hindī, IPA: [hɪnd̪iː]), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is the official language of the Union along with English. It is part of a language continuum of the Indic family, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, and Gujarati; on the south by Marathi and Konkani; on the southeast by Oriya; on the east by Bengali; and on the north by Nepali.
More narrowly, Hindi also refers to a standardized register of Hindustani termed khariboli, that emerged as the standard dialect.