Hindi (disambiguation)

Hindustani proper (red), including Khari Boli and Kauravi. Dark grey are the other Indo-Aryan languages.

Western Hindi, including Braj Bhasha, Haryanvi, Bundeli, Bagheli, Awadhi and Kannauji

An intermediate scope: Eastern and Western Hindi (Indic Central Zone)

The broadest scope: the Hindi belt

• Hindi is the name of an Indo-Aryan language or languages originated from Sanskrit, defined with various degrees of scope:

• In the narrowest and in English perhaps most common sense, Hindi is Modern Standard Hindi, a literary style and standardized register of Hindustani.
• In a slightly broader sense, Hindi is spoken Hindustani, as used for example in Hindi Cinema (Bollywood).
• Historically, Hindi may refer to any Central-Zone Indic literary dialect (Khari Boli), including Urdu, Braj Bhasha, and Awadhi.
• In an intermediate sense, Hindi is the Central Zone dialects of Western Hindi (including Hindustani) and Eastern Hindi (including Fijian Hindi).
• In the widest sense, "Hindi" covers all the Hindi languages (Hindi belt), varieties of Hindi of the so-called Hindi belt: Western Hindi, Eastern Hindi, Bihari (including Caribbean Hindustani and Fiji Hindi but sometimes excluding Bhojpuri, Pahari, Nepali and Maithili, and Rajasthani).

• The term may also refer to:

• Bombay Hindi
• Haflong Hindi
• Fiji Hindi
• Urdu (in Malaysia)
• Caribbean Hindustani

• In Arabic, al-Hind means India and Hindī means Indian; these words are cognate with Indus and Sindh of Pakistan. The Arabic name al-Hindi ("the Indian"; properly al-hindiyya) can figure as a nisba.

• In Filipino the word Hindi means No/Not or a negative exclamation.

• In Turkish language, Hindi means Turkey, the bird.

See also

• History of Hindustani
• Hindi literature
• Hindi cinema