15 Interesting Facts about Hindi Language.....



1. Hindi got its name from the Persian word Hind meaning the land of the Indus river. Sanskrit is the mother of Hindi and Urdu is considered its sister language.


2. Hindi language got the status of the official language of India in 1950. In 1954, a committee was formed by the Government of India to prepare Hindi grammar. 


3. Hindi is spoken by 366 million people worldwide. After English, Spanish, and Mandarin It is the 4th most spoken language, also spoken in Fiji, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Nepal & Mauritius.


4. Hindi is written in the Devanagri script and has 52 letters. Hindi script is phonetic meaning it's pronounced the way it is written, unlike English.


5. According to the 2001 census, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil are among the 5 most spoken languages in India.


6. In 1881, Bihar replaced Hindi as its official state language and became the first Indian state to adopt the language officially.


7. There is no articles in Hindi unlike “a”, “an” and “the” of English language.


8. The book Prem Sagar, based on Shri Krishna, written by Lallu Lal, published in 1805, is considered to be the first book written in Hindi.


9. You will be surprised to know that there are about 9 thousand websites of Central and State Governments that open in Hindi first.


10. English has borrowed many words from Hindi. Examples of words borrowed from Hindi into English include avatar, bandana, bangla, dinghy, guru, jungle, khaki, karma, loot, mantra, nirvana, punch, pajama, sherbet, shampoo, thug, storm, and yoga.


11. According to a report, an average, 8 to 9 of the 32 apps in the smartphone of Indian youth are from Hindi. Indian youth watch 93% Hindi videos on YouTube.


12. The demand for Hindi content in digital media is growing at the rate of about 94 percent. Whereas the demand for English content is much less than this.


13. The modern Devanagari script came into existence in the 11th century. The earliest evidence of Hindi printing is found in Grammar of the Hindustani Language, a book by John Gilchrist, published in 1796 in Calcutta. It deals with the Hindustani language, which is a common form of Hindi and Urdu but is mostly a spoken language.


14. Hinglish, a hybrid language between Hindi and English. Keep in mind that it is not the same as Indian English. The popular example is -
 Yeh Dil Maange More!


15. Some words of Hindi are so difficult to pronounce that they have been replaced with their counterpart English words like किम्कर्तव्यविमूढ़ [means confused, bewildered, indecisive], लौहपथगामिनी [means train], etc.











Hope from above you know about the Hindi language facts....




Source from: self reasearch, best Hindi facts.com, from the book etc.