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Where is Hindi Spoken?Hindi Language HistoryHindi
(in the broad sense) is a subset of the Indo-Aryan language family
in the northern plains of India,
bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati and
Marathi; on the east by Maithili and Bengali; and on the north by Nepali.
The Central Zone languages, or Hindi proper, are conventionally divided
into Western and Eastern
Hindi.
"Hindi" in the narrow sense of Standard Hindi is a standardized register of one of the Central Zone dialects variously called Khari boli, Hindustani, Hindawi, or Urdu. According to the 2001 Indian census, 258 million people in India (25% of the population) regarded their native language to be "Hindi." The government, however, counted 422 million Hindi speakers (41% of the population) by including people who identified their language as Awadhi, Bagheli, Bhojpuri (Bihari), Bundeli, Chhattisgarhi, Garhwali, Harauti, Haryanvi, Khortha (Khotta), Kumauni, Lamani (Lambadi), Magadhi (Bihari), Malvi, Marwari, Mewari, Nimadi, Pahari, Rajasthani, and Sadan (Sadri), as well as numerous other languages with fewer than 2 million self-indentified speakers. Note that these figures do not count 52 million Indians who considered their mother tongue to be "Urdu." The numbers are also not directly comparable to the table above; for example, while independent estimates in 2001 counted 37 million speakers of Awadhi, in the 2001 census only 2½ million of these identified their language as "Awadhi" rather than as "Hindi."...LEARN MORE Hindi Culture of IndiaCultures, Customs in India: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Awesome Music of India: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ancient Culture of India: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() LOVE TRANSCENDS
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