Monday, March 23, 2009

Hindi Language

India represents unity in diversity. It’s a land of many cultures, different religions, and huge number of languages. Hindi is the primary official language of India. It is one of the world’s most spoken languages. Spoken across all over the India, Hindi boasts of a great heritage and history. Also refereed as Indo-European language, it is primarily spoken in central and northern India. Hindi is supposed to be an offshoot of ‘Khari boli’. Hindustani is the mother language out of which emerged two standardized languages of Hindi and Urdu. Urdu is the official language of Pakistan. Hindi and Urdu do share some similarities.

However, there is a basic difference between these two languages in terms of script. Devanagari script is used for Hindi whereas Nastaliq script is used for Urdu. Sanskrit is the main source of vocabulary for Hindi words and hindi shayari whereas Urdu gets its inspiration from Arabian and Persian languages. Apart from these factors both languages share numerous similarities. Being the national language of India, Hindi is spoken by millions of people in many parts of the country. No less than six states have declares Hindi to be the primary regional language. These states include, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan.

Hindi has several dialects like Maithili, Bundeli, Brajbhasa, Bhojpuri, Marwari and Awadhi. The roots of the Hindi can be found in seventh or eighth century India. By the beginning of 10th century, Hindi poetry has started to take roots and since then it has kept on refining and remodeling itself.

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