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 |
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| Standard | |
| 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? |
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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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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ