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;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi Wikipedia]:Hindi ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari Devanagari]: हिन्दी or हिंदी; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet IPA]: [hɪnd̪iː]), an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages Indo-European language] spoken mainly in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_India northern] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_India central] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India], is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_language official language] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_government_of_India Union government of India]. It is part of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum dialect continuum] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages Indic] family, bounded on the northwest and west by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjabi_language Punjabi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhi_language Sindhi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu Urdu], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarati_language Gujarati]; on the south by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_language Marathi]; on the southeast by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriya_language Oriya]; on the east by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language Bengali]; and on the north by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepali_language Nepali]. Hindi also refers to a standardized [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(linguistics) register] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani Hindustani] termed ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khariboli khariboli]'', that emerged as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_language standard dialect] of Hindi. The grammatical description in this article concerns this standard Hindi. |
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[[Hindi]], the dominant language of north [[OLPC India|India]], is written in the [[Devanagari]] alphabet. It is supported for typing and display in Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, all using [[Unicode]] to represent the text internally, with Unicode [[fonts]]. There are several projects to create Linux distributions in [[Hindi]], including [http://www.indlinux.org/ IndLinux]. |
[[Hindi]], the dominant language of north [[OLPC India|India]], is written in the [[Devanagari]] alphabet. It is supported for typing and display in Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, all using [[Unicode]] to represent the text internally, with Unicode [[fonts]]. There are several projects to create Linux distributions in [[Hindi]], including [http://www.indlinux.org/ IndLinux]. |
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- Wikipedia
- Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी or हिंदी; IPA: [hɪnd̪iː]), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is the official language of the Union government of India. It is part of a dialect continuum of the Indic family, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu, and Gujarati; on the south by Marathi; on the southeast by Oriya; on the east by Bengali; and on the north by Nepali. Hindi also refers to a standardized register of Hindustani termed khariboli, that emerged as the standard dialect of Hindi. The grammatical description in this article concerns this standard Hindi.
Hindi, the dominant language of north India, is written in the Devanagari alphabet. It is supported for typing and display in Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, all using Unicode to represent the text internally, with Unicode fonts. There are several projects to create Linux distributions in Hindi, including IndLinux.
Alphabet
See alphabets for fonts.
Countries / Regions
- India / north