Hindi

Indo-Aryan language spoken in India
Language language Q1568
Hindi
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Summary

Hindi is a language[1]. Hindi ranks in the top 0.053% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33,644 views/month, #3 of 5,611).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: India[3], Nepal[4], Pakistan[5], Fiji[6]
  • Instance of: modern language[7], register[8]
  • Subclass of: Hindustani[9]
  • Writing system: Devanagari[10]
  • Part of: Schedule languages of India[11]
  • Commons category: Hindi language[12]
  • Wikimedia language code: hi[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Hindi[14]
  • Language regulatory body: Central Hindi Directorate[15]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 341,000,000[16], 260,123,420[17], 120,490,000[18], 322,230,097[19], 274,266,900[20]
  • Described by source: Nordisk familjebok[21], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[23], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[24], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[25]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/hindi[26], https://stackoverflow.com/tags/hindi[27], https://languagelearning.stackexchange.com/tags/hindi[28], https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/hindi[29]
  • Has characteristic: Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Hindi[30]
  • Native label: हिन्दी[31], मानक हिन्दी‎[32]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C153948[33]
  • Different from: Hindu[34], Hindustani[35]
  • Indigenous to: Dards[36], Indians[37], India[38], Bihar[39], Delhi[40], Himachal Pradesh[41], Madhya Pradesh[42], Punjab[43], Rajasthan[44], Uttar Pradesh[45], Uttarakhand[46], Haryana[47]
  • Female form of label: la langue hindi[48]

Why It Matters

Hindi has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] Hindi is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

Hindi has been cited as an influence by English[51], a natural language[52], in American Samoa[53] and Globasa[54], an international auxiliary language[55], founded in 2019[56].

FAQs

Who did Hindi influence?

Hindi has been cited as an influence by English[51] and Globasa[54].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. Retrieved . iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . censusindia.gov.in. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  46. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [51] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [54] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [52] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [53] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [55] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [56] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10d ago · Rohini · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Instance of: modern language"
  2. 13d ago · Trummler12 · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Instance of: register"
  3. 18d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wolfram language entity code → Entity["Language", "Hindi"]
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["Language", "Hindi"], Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/53945764|Hindi (#53945764)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/145"
  4. 18d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 224
    Deaf movie database language id → hindi
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'a
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Deaf movie database language id: hindi, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/225055106|hindi (#225055106)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7269|‎Deaf Movie Dat"
  5. 11w ago · Danÿa · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata language code → hi
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Wikidata language code: hi"
  6. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3YCDpM
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  7. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → hindi
    Svkkl authority id → h0009381-hindstina
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: hindi, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289937690|hindi (#289937690)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  8. 19w ago · LadyData · 2026-06-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imdb interest id → in0000222
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Imdb interest id: in0000222, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/265224508|Hindi (#265224508)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6416|IMDb interest ID]] #mix"
  9. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 11900, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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