Interesting Facts about hindi - हिन्दी
by Sanju[ Edit ] 2010-02-11 23:21:02
The Hindi alphabet consists of 11 vowels and 33 consonants.
The Devanagari script used for Hindi is derived from the ancient Brahmi and is closely related to other Indian scripts such as Gujarati and Bengali.
Hindi was originally a variety of Hindustani spoken in the area of New Delhi.
There are hundreds of Hindi dialects.
The Hindi language has been enriched by Persian, Turkish, Farsi, Arabic, Portuguese, and English.
Today, Hindi is widely spoken in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bhutan), South Africa, Mauritius, the USA, Canada, Trinidad, Fiji, Surinam, Guyana, Yemen, Uganda, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Today the internet provides significant opportunities to people to learn Hindi, whereever you are. Some of the major Web Sites are:
Hindi Google - http://www.google.com/Top/World/Hindi/
Hindi Wikipedia - http://hi.wikipedia.org/
