Hindi language

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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1. What is the primary language family?Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-Iranian languages
2. What is the standardization period?19th century, based on the Khari Boli dialect
3. What is Hindi?Hindi is a language spoken by more than 600 million people in India and around the world. It uses the Devanagari script and has a rich history that started from Sanskrit.
4. Why does Hindi have many Persian and Arabic words?During the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire, people used Persian and Arabic, so many words from those languages were added to Hindi, especially for law, government, and literature.

Hindustani: A lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, encompassing both Hindi and Urdu.
Khari Boli: The dialect of the Delhi region that forms the basis of modern standard Hindi and Urdu.
Ergativity: A grammatical system where the subject of a transitive verb is marked differently from the subject of an intransitive verb.