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(hĭn'dē) 
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- A group of vernacular Indic dialects spoken in northern India.
- The literary and official language of northern India that is based on these dialects. It is written in Devanagari and uses Sanskrit as a resource language.
[Hindi Hindī, from Hind, India, from Persian, from Old Persian Hinduš, Sind, from Sanskrit sindhuḥ, river.]
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Hindu
Hindi (hĭn'dē), language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. The official language of India, Hindi is the written or literary variant of Hindustani that is used by Hindus. It is written in the Devanagari alphabet employed for Sanskrit and has a vocabulary of Indic origin. There are two main dialectal groups of the Hindi language: Western Hindi and Eastern Hindi. The former has four principal dialects. The latter is the medium of an extensive and outstanding literature. Some 300 million people speak Hindi as their primary language; most of them live in India.
Bibliography
See E. Bender, Hindi Grammar and Reader (1967); V. R. Jagannathan, Handbook of Modern Hindi Usage (1981); M. C. Shapiro, A Primer of Modern Standard Hindi (1989).
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IN BRIEF: n. - The most widely spoken of modern Indic vernaculars adj. - Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - Hindi
adj. - hindisk
Nederlands (Dutch)
Hindi, Hindoe, van/uit Noord-India
Français (French)
n. - Hindi
adj. - hindi
Deutsch (German)
n. - Hindi
adj. - Hindi-
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - νεοϊνδική γλώσσα, χίντι
adj. - της γλώσσας Χίντι, νεοϊνδικός
Português (Portuguese)
n. - hindi (m)
adj. - hindi
Español (Spanish)
n. - hindi
adj. - hindi
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hindi (språk)
adj. - hindi-
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
北印度语, 北印度的
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 北印度語
adj. - 北印度的
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 인도어
adj. - 북부 인도의, 인도어의
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) اللغه الهنديه, لغه شمالي الهند الادبيه والرسميه (صفه) متعلق باللغه الهنديه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - הינדית (שפה)
adj. - הינדי, הינדית
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