Language code: hi

Technical information about ISO 639 language code hi

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
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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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

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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