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Hindi is a standardised form of the Hindustani language and is an official language of India along with English. It is mutually understandable with Urdu - despite some vocabulary differences - but Hindi uses the Devanagari script and Urdu a Perso-Arabic script. Hindi is the fourth most spoken language in the world and, in India, is a lingua franca in the Hindi Belt and much of the rest of the country. Lots of its vocabulary comes from Sanskrit and Prakit, with additional borrowings from English.
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Where is it spoken?
India
Number of speakers
540,000,000
Language family
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Fun facts — Hindi
There's a Hindi idiom, 'thali ka baingan', which translates as 'aubergine on a plate' and means that loyalties shift depending on circumstances - the eggplant will roll in the direction the plate tips.
English borrows the words bungalow, pyjama and jungle from Hindi.
The single word jugaad means coming up with a canny and cost-efficient solution through innovation and creative thinking.
The word कल (kal) can mean either 'yesterday' or 'tomorrow', depending on the context.
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