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