Hindi (disambiguation)
Hindi is the name of various Indo-Aryan languages, commonly referred to as the Hindi languages with various definitions. These include:
- in the narrowest sense, Modern Standard Hindi, a literary style and standard register of Hindustani
- in a slightly broader sense, spoken Hindustani, as used for example in Hindi Cinema
- historically, any Central-Zone Indic literary standard dialect (khari boli), including Urdu, Braj Bhasha, and Avadhi.
- in an intermediate sense, the Central Zone dialects of Western Hindi (includes Hindustani) and Eastern Hindi (includes Fijian Hindi)
- in the widest sense, the varieties of Hindi across the so-called Hindi Belt: Western Hindi, Eastern Hindi, Bihari (includes Caribbean Hindustani), Pahari (apart from Nepali), and Rajasthani
- Bombay Hindi
- Fiji Hindi
- Urdu (in Malaysia)
- Caribbean Hindustani
In Arabic names, al-Hindī "the Indian" (properly al-hindiyyu) can figure as a nisba.
See also