Hindi - the third most widely-spoken language in the world

Hindi is the third most widely-spoken language in theetc. It was in the 10th century that authentic Hindi
world .Near about 500-600 million people speak thispoetry took its form and since then it has been
language. A direct descendant of Sanskrit throughconstantly modified. History of Hindi literature as a
Prakrit and Apabhramsha, Hindi belongs to thewhole can be divided into four stages: Adikal (the
Indo-Aryan group of languages, a subset of theEarly 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 withThe 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. Afew. Hindi can be traced back to as early as the
good knowledge of Hindi is therefore likely to beseventh or eighth century. The dialect that has been
useful to anyone having an interest in the countrieschosen as the official language is Khariboli in the
of South Asia or in the numerous South AsianDevnagari 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 anpopularity 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 Prakritappeal and now they have broken into the Western
languages of the middle ages, and indirectly, frommarkets as well. The beginnings of Hindi literature go
Sanskrit. Hindi derives a lot of its higher vocabularyback to the Prakrits that are a part of the classical
from Sanskrit. Due to Muslim influence in northernSanskrit plays. Tulasidas's Ramacharitamanas attained
India, there are also a number of Persian and Turkishwide popularity. Modern masters include Sumitra
loanwords.Nandan Pant, Maithili Sharan Gupta, Mahadevi Varma,
Hindi is very pleasant language when we are talkand Ajneya
about Hindi song, Hindi kavita (Poetry), Hindi bhajanHindi and Hindi Film Review.