Hindi (disambiguation)
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Hindustani proper (red). Dark grey are the other Indo-Aryan languages.
An intermediate scope: Central Indo-Aryan languages.
The broadest scope: the Hindi Belt.
Hindi, or Modern Standard Hindi, is a standardised register of the Hindustani language that serves as one of the two official languages of India.
Hindi may also have the following broader meanings:
- In a slightly broader sense, Hindi is the Hindustani language, the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan which has both Modern Standard Hindi and Urdu as its literary registers (see first map)
- In an intermediate sense, Hindi refers to the Central Indo-Aryan languages, which include Hindustani along with Awadhi, Braj and others (see second map)
- In the widest sense, Hindi covers the languages of the Hindi Belt, which in addition to the Central Indo-Aryan languages has variously been taken to also include varieties of Bihari, Rajasthani, and Pahari (see map at the end)
In other specific contexts, Hindi may also refer to:
- Bombay Hindi, a Hindustani-based pidgin spoken in Mumbai
- Fiji Hindi
- Caribbean Hindustani
- The Turkish term for turkey (bird)
People with the name
- Abdulbasit Hindi (born 1997), Saudi Arabian football player
- Abdul-Ghaffar Hasan Al-Hindi (1913–2007), Pakistani scholar
- Ahmad Hindi (1800–1869), Iranian cleric
- Ahmad Hindi (athlete) (born 1995), Jordanian Paralympic athlete
- Amin al-Hindi (1940–2010), Palestinian intelligence chief
- Ayman Al-Hindi (born 1986), Palestinian football player
- Baba Ratan Hindi, legendary figure of early Islam
- Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi (born 1978), Saudi Arabian pilot
- Hani al-Hindi (1927–2016), Syrian politician and activist
- Ibrahim Bu Hindi (born 1948), Bahraini journalist and writer
- Ignatius Simon II Hindi Zora (1754–1838), Syrian patriarch
- Joseph V Augustine Hindi (18th–19th c.), Chaldean Catholic patriarch
- Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi (1472–1567), Islamic scholar
- Nadia Al-Hindi (born 1972), Jordanian tennis player
- Safi al-Din al-Hindi, 13th-century scholar
- Steve Hindi (born 1950s), American activisit and businessman
- Wael El Hindi (born 1980), Egyptian squash player
- Yahya El Hindi (born 1998), Lebanese football player
- Hindi Zahra (born 1979), Moroccan singer and actress
See also
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