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Name:
Hindi
Alternate Names:
High Hindi; Nagari Hindi; Literary Hindi; Standard Hindi; Khari Boli; Khadi Boli; Hindustani
Spoken in:
Belize, Nepal, USA, South Africa, India, Kenya, Yemen, Botswana, Bangladesh, Germany, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Zambia, Uganda, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Number of speakers:
180,000,000 in India (1991 UBS). Population total all countries: 181,676,620
(Ethnologue)
Code:
hin
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Hindustani (hind)
Child Dialect Group:
Literary Hindi; Hindi-Urdu (hin-lit)
Child Dialects:
Urdu (hin-urd)
Hindi; High Hindi; Nagari Hindi; Literary Hindi; Standard Hindi (hin-hin)
Dakhini (hin-dak)
Rekhta (hin-rek)

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