Hindi

Hindi (हिन्दी or हिंदी in Devanagari; pronunciation: /hɪnd̪iː/

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

Hindi is classified as a language belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. It comes under the Indo-Aryan division of the Indo-Iranian branch of that family of languages.