Hindi in its present form also originates from Hindustani, the language that was widely spoken across the Indian subcontinent before partition, it was a blend of Hindi and Urdu. Hindi is written in Devanagari script (देवनागरी लिपि) which contains 33 Constants and 11 vowels.
The Hindi language is a beautiful blend of different cultures that have existed in India. It is native to North, west and central parts of India. A large fraction of the population in India have Hindi as their mother tongue today.
Spoken by almost 500 million people worldwide, Hindi is fifth most spoken language in World and most commonly spoken language in India. Along with India, Hindi is also spoken in Bangladesh, Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago and Nepal.
The Hindi language, although widespread, is not uniform in nature. There are many different dialects or 'types' of Hindi spoken across geographies. Some of the popular dialects include Khadi boli, Braj bhasha, Haryanavi, Awadhi and Bundeli.
The native Hindi speakers include Hindustani people that are Hindu and also the people that consider their speech to be a dialect of Hindi. According to the 2001 Indian census, 258 million people in India reported Hindi to be their language. Hindi is approximately the sixth-largest language within the planet.
The Indian constitution, adopted in back 1950, says Hindi shall be written within the Devanagari and may be considered the official language of the federal of India. However, English continues to as widely used as an official language in association with Hindi. Most of the government's documents are prepared in three languages: English, Hindi, and the first official language of the local state, if it isn't Hindi or English.
In many states like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, and Delhi Hindi is considered as the official language. Each can also designate a "co-official language"; in Uttar Pradesh as an example, counting on the political formation in power, sometimes this language is Urdu. Similarly, Hindi corresponds to the status of co-official language in several additional states.
The dialect upon which Standard Hindi is stated is Khadiboli, the dialect of Delhi and also the surrounding western Uttar Pradesh and southern Uttarakhand region. This dialect acquired linguistic fame within the Mughal Empire back in the 17th century and has become referred to as Urdu, "the language of the court." After independence, the govt of India set about standardizing Hindi as a separate language from Urdu.