hindi regional dialects

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This particular resource links to the Wikipedia entry on the Hindi language. This entry contains loads of information for the curious reader as well as for the serious Hindi language learner, including historical and linguistic data.

Use this resource to become familiar with the Hindi language and its context in today's world, to discover facts and linguistic data about Hindi and its many varieties, access further information about and resources for learning Hindi, and much more.

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Hindi (pronunciation, Devanagari: हिन्दी or हिंदी, IAST: Hindī, IPA: [hɪnd̪iː]), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is the official language of the Union along with English. It is part of a language continuum of the Indic family, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, and Gujarati; on the south by Marathi and Konkani; on the southeast by Oriya; on the east by Bengali; and on the north by Nepali.

More narrowly, Hindi also refers to a standardized register of Hindustani termed khariboli, that emerged as the standard dialect.

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"Here you'll find some useful resources to help you to understand the Hindi Language better. It's spoken by almost 500 million people over the world, the third most spoken language. It's the official language of India, the country with the second largest population in the world. From the History to useful phrases, we're trying to offer a general overview about the language in order to give you a way to get started in Hindi learning. We do NOT aim to write all about Hindi Language, it is almost impossible to achieve :-). But we DO want to hear from you suggestions to improve the site and offer you the content YOU consider more useful. Please fell free to contact us.

For a quick start up please see our Hindi Words section. Just after you can take your first steps into the grammar, but it's just an overview, if you want to take it more seriously, you'll have to study many years. The Hindi literature is another interesting source of information, as well as Hindi slang, to know a little about how people speak in the streets. And if you're a teacher, please visit our Hindi Teaching resources page, to get in touch with associations and other sites built specially for you. You'll find also links to Hindi language schools."

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This site has general information about the Hindi language. Also on the site are some useful phrases and many odds and ends about Hindi, such as dialects, dictionaries, forums, newsletters, schools, products, slang and translation.

This site is definitely worth a look for anyone interested in learning about the Hindi language, as well as those learning the language itself.

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