| Hindi is the third most widely-spoken language in the | | | | etc. It was in the 10th century that authentic Hindi |
| world .Near about 500-600 million people speak this | | | | poetry took its form and since then it has been |
| language. A direct descendant of Sanskrit through | | | | constantly modified. History of Hindi literature as a |
| Prakrit and Apabhramsha, Hindi belongs to the | | | | whole can be divided into four stages: Adikal (the |
| Indo-Aryan group of languages, a subset of the | | | | Early Period), Bhaktikal (the Devotional Period), Ritikal |
| Indo-European family. It has been influenced and | | | | (the Scholastic Period) and Adhunikkal (the Modern |
| enriched by Persian, Turkish, Farsi, Arabic, | | | | Period). |
| Portuguese, and English. Hindi is very much similar with | | | | The other dialects of Hindi are Brajbhasha, Bundeli, |
| Urdu, while Urdu is the official language of Pakistan, | | | | Awadhi, Marwari, Maithili, and Bhojpuri, to name only a |
| and is closely related to Bengali, Punjabi and Gujrati. A | | | | few. Hindi can be traced back to as early as the |
| good knowledge of Hindi is therefore likely to be | | | | seventh or eighth century. The dialect that has been |
| useful to anyone having an interest in the countries | | | | chosen as the official language is Khariboli in the |
| of South Asia or in the numerous South Asian | | | | Devnagari script. Other dialects of Hindi are Brajbhasa, |
| communities of the world. | | | | Bundeli, Awadhi, Marwari, Maithili and Bhojpuri. Hindi's |
| Hindi spokes in northern and central India. It is an | | | | popularity has been helped by Bollywood, the Hindi |
| Indo-European language, of the Indo-Iranian subfamily. | | | | film industry. These movies have an international |
| It evolved from the Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit | | | | appeal and now they have broken into the Western |
| languages of the middle ages, and indirectly, from | | | | markets as well. The beginnings of Hindi literature go |
| Sanskrit. Hindi derives a lot of its higher vocabulary | | | | back to the Prakrits that are a part of the classical |
| from Sanskrit. Due to Muslim influence in northern | | | | Sanskrit plays. Tulasidas's Ramacharitamanas attained |
| India, there are also a number of Persian and Turkish | | | | wide popularity. Modern masters include Sumitra |
| loanwords. | | | | Nandan Pant, Maithili Sharan Gupta, Mahadevi Varma, |
| Hindi is very pleasant language when we are talk | | | | and Ajneya |
| about Hindi song, Hindi kavita (Poetry), Hindi bhajan | | | | Hindi and Hindi Film Review. |