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Language code: hi

Technical information about ISO 639 language code hi

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The table below provides technical details for the Hindi language, designated by the hi code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

hi

Name

Official

Hindi

Native

हिन्दी

Family
Indo-Aryan
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Khari BoliBraj BhashaHaryanviKanaujiBundeliAwadhiBagheliChhattisgarhi
Related languages
UrduBhojpuriMaithiliRajasthaniPunjabi
Key facts
Modern Standard Hindi is based on the Khari Boli dialect of the Delhi regionThe language shows split-ergative alignment, using ergative case only with perfective transitive verbsHindi’s Devanagari script is an abugida where each consonant carries an inherent vowel that can be modified with diacriticsEarly literary Hindi includes 13th-century poetry by Amir Khusrow and later devotional works by Tulsidas and KabirEveryday Hindi vocabulary blends tatsama words from Sanskrit with many Persian, Arabic and increasingly English loanwords.
Sample phrase

नमस्ते, आप कैसे हैं?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

Hindi belongs to the Indo-European language family, more precisely to the Indo-Aryan subgroup. It is one of the official languages used in many parts of India, including Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. Hindi is written using the Devanagari script. It is estimated that there are over 350 million native speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

India

339M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Hindi speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

hi-IN – Hindi (India)

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