15 Amazing Facts About Hindi Language Perhaps You didn’t Know

- By Anamika Mishra

Hindi, in India is one of the 2 official languages and also mother tongue. Written in Devnagari script, it’s alphabetical table of Hindi is called ‘Varnmala’ which means ‘garland of letters’. There are over 500 million speakers of Hindi from all across the world. In this post, I am sharing 15 amazing facts about Hindi language perhaps you didn’t know.

15 Amazing Facts about Hindi Language

World ‘Hindi’ has been derived from the word ‘Hind’ which means Land of the river Indus. Also, the world Hind is a Persian word
Hindi is taught in over 180 universities of the world out of which 45 are American Universities
Hindi is the 4th most-spoken first language in the world, after Spanish, Mandarin and English
Hindi alongside Urdu termed as Hindustani is the 3rd most-spoken language in the world, after Mandarin and English
Hindi is the only language in which what you write is same as what you pronounce unlike in English where what you write is not as what you pronounce and often pronunciations are different like To and Go for instance
There are many Hindi words such as ‘yoga’, ‘mantra’, ‘nirvana’, ‘avatar’, ‘karma’ etc. are taken from Hindi, used as English and are included in the English word dictionary
Prem Sagur was the first published Hindi book written by Lallu Lal in 1805. The book is about Shri Krishna
The first Hindi film was made by Dadasaheb Phalke called as Raja Harishchandra was released in 1913
Hindi is adopted as the third official court language in UAE
In Fiji, Awadhi Language which is an eastern dialect of Hindi is the official language. They call it as Fiji Hindi
Hindi is the protected language in South Africa
Hindi language is used in more than 20 countries including USA, Yemen, Qatar, Singapore and Mauritius
Hindi is one of the 7 languages that are used to made web address
There are so many English words that have been derived from Hindi such as Jungle, Verandah, Chit, Myth, Pyjama, Cashmere, Chutney, Thug, Loot and Bungalow to name a few
The roots of Hindi date back to the 2nd millennium BC making it one of the most prominent ancient languages in the world

Ain’t these facts about Hindi so fascinating? If you agree then please take a moment to share the wisdom with your family and friends or maybe your social media followers.