Learn Hindi: Hindi alphabet chart and letters
Learning Hindi language
Everyday Hindi phrases
- नमस्तेnamasteHello
- आप कैसे हैं?āp kaise haiṁ?How are you?
- मैं ठीक हूँ, धन्यवाद।maiṁ ṭhīk hūṁ, dhanyavād.I am fine, thank you.
- माफ़ कीजिएmāf kījieSorry / excuse me
- रेलवे स्टेशन कहाँ है?relve sṭeshan kahāṁ hai?Where is the railway station?
- यह कितने का है?yah kitne kā hai?How much is this?
- खाना बहुत स्वादिष्ट है।khānā bahut svādiṣṭ hai.The food is delicious.
- मुझे थोड़ी हिंदी आती है।mujhe thoṛī hindī ātī hai.I know a little Hindi.
- हाँ / नहींhāṁ / nahīṁYes / no
- फिर मिलेंगेphir mileṅgeSee you again
About Hindi
Hindi is one of the 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India and the official language of the Union under Article 343 of the Constitution, and of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Delhi. The 2011 Census counted 52.83 crore people in India whose mother tongue it is. It is written in Devanagari. It is the mother tongue of more people than any other language in India.
Links
To go further: Bharatavani, the portal of India's languages run by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, has dictionaries, primers and books in Hindi.
- Central Hindi Directorate: Ministry of Education: Hindi dictionaries, correspondence courses and the standard Devanagari spelling
- Kendriya Hindi Sansthan: Agra (Ministry of Education): teaching Hindi to speakers of other languages, in India and abroad
- Department of Official Language: Ministry of Home Affairs: Hindi as the official language of the Union, with free learning courses
- Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya: Wardha: a central university for Hindi
- Sahitya Akademi: India's national academy of letters (Ministry of Culture): books, translations and the yearly awards in Hindi and the other languages of India
Hindi Links (Colorado State University): lessons, the Devanagari script, dictionaries and phrases
Shabdkosh: English-Hindi dictionary
Sources: Census of India 2011, Language (Paper 1 of 2018), speakers of the scheduled languages; the Constitution of India, Eighth Schedule.