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- Member of the Indo-Aryan group within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.
- Spoken and understood by more than 30% of India
- Official language of the Indian Union

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- Spoken as 1st language by nearly 425 million
- Spoken as 2nd language by some 120 million

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Subject-Object-Verb (SOV)

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English borrowed words from the Hindi language!

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English borrowed words from the Hindi language!

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- Jungle: It is derived from jangal, a Hindi word that translates to ”wild wasteland.”
- Bungalow: It came from the word bangla that describes the houses built in the Bengal style.

- Cashmere: This is the old spelling of the state of Kashmir. It lent its name to the fabric made from the fine wool sheared from cashmere goats that were abundant in the area.
- Bangles: It came from the term bangri that means the colored glass ornaments worn by Indian women on their wrists.
- Shampoo: It came from the word champo. The Hindi word means to massage, knead or squeeze.

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Written in Devanagari Script
- 36 consonants
- 12 vowels

- Written LEFT to RIGHT
-  Uses POSTposition rather than the prepositions (like in English (modifier after the noun)
- There are NO articles like ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’

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Lesson 1: Devanagari Alphabets (Sanskrit and Hindi varnamala)

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Lesson 1: Devanagari Alphabets (Sanskrit and Hindi varnamala)

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- Hindi is the FOURTH most widely spoken languages of the world after English, Spanish, and Mandarin

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Kathak performance by professional Indian dancers!

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- Comes from the word ‘Katha’ which means “story” in Hindi
- Referred to as the dance of love
- Performed by both male and female dancer together
- Focus on ankle move movements as the dancers have ankle bells (gunghroos) on
- Performed in various places in India (Jaipur, Benares, and Lucknow)

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Kathak performance by professional Indian dancers!

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- Bollywood Movies
- TV
- Music
- Media
- Business
- Ads
- Bill Boards
- Radio
- Scientific Research
- Railway Stations
- Bus Stops
- Airports
- Schools

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- Nepal
- Surinam
- Fiji
- Trinidad
- Guyana
- West Indies
- Kenya
- UAE
- Canada
- UK
- USA

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Learn Hindi - Hindi in Three Minutes - Numbers 1-10

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Learn Hindi - Hindi in Three Minutes - Numbers 1-10

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- INDIA (the preferred official language)
- South Africa
- Mauritius
- Bangladesh
- Yemen
- Uganda

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- Layered pudding
- Influenced by the Portuguese who colonized Goa
- Often seven layers in this dish with flour, ghee, sugar, egg yolk, coconut milk, and nutmeg
- Usually ate for celebrations

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Texts:
- Vedas
- Puranas
- Ramayana
- Bhagavad Gita

Hindu Gods:
- Brahma
- Shiva
- Vishnu
- Trimurti
- Devi

Place of Worship:
- Hindu Temple/Mandir

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- Hindi has reduced the number of genders to two (masculine/feminine) while others have retained the neuter gender
- Made Hindi system of case marking and verbal inflection simpler
- Only the present and future indicative forms are fully conjugated in Hindi

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- Sanskrit
- Persian
- Turkish
- English
- Portuguese
- Urdu
- Nepalese
- Bengali
- Gujarati

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बंदर क्या जाने अदरख का स्वाद
Bandar kya jaane adark ka swaad

English Translation:
What does a monkey know of the taste of ginger?

Meaning:
Someone who can’t understand can’t appreciate

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If you know Hindi, you’ll be able to:
- SPEAK Urdu
- READ Nepalese

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- Evolved from the interaction of early speakers of Khari Boli with Muslim invaders from Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Central Asia and elsewhere
- Persian and Arabic words were assimilated