HISTORY OF HINDI LANGUAGE Hindi is language spoken by people all over india . Hindi is one of the two official languages of communicationas described by the constitution of India, english being the other. Here the official hindi language is the standard hindi or the khariboli mainly spoken in and around delhi. Hindi in other regions has been more so influenced by the regional language but when we really intend to learn a language it should be the pure language, hope this thread helps all hindi lovers in that . Some Interesting Facts and Figures (source : internet) 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, Trinidad, Fiji, Surinam, Guyana, Yemen, Uganda, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore. TO BE CONTINUED.............
Hindi is the third most widely-spoken language in the world (after English and Mandarin) A direct descendant of Sanskrit through Prakrit and Apabhramsha, Hindi belongs to the Indo-Aryan group of languages, a subset of the Indo-European family Hindi inherited its writing system from Sanskrit. The general appearance of the Devanagari script is that of letters 'hanging from a line'. This 'line', also found in many other South Asian scripts, is actually a part of most of the letters and is drawn as the writing proceeds. The script has no capital letters. Hindi is the official language of the Republic of India, and the common second language of Mauritius, Fiji, Trinidad, Guyana and Surinam. A Brief History Hindi (and Urdu) is descended from Hindustani, the colloquial form of speech that was spoken in the area in and around Delhi in North India roughly in the ninth and tenth centuries. This language was given the Persian name Hindvi/Hindi - ie the language of Hind, the land of the Indus River - by the Persian-speaking Turks who overran Punjab and the Gangetic plains in the early eleventh century and established what is known as the Delhi Sultanate. Hindvi was constructed largely from Sanskrit loan words that had been 'softened' for 'bol-chal' (common speech). It also absorbed Persian, and through Persian, Arabic loan words, and developed as a mixed or broken language of communication between the newly arrived immigrants and the resident native population of North India. In the course of another century it split into Hindi and Urdu, the former representing a Sanskrit bias and the latter a Persian one. Today, Hindi is written in the Devanagari script while Urdu is written in the Perso-Arabic script. HISTORY MAY BE BORING BUT ALWAYS GOOD TO KNOW THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE WE USE
Today : AAJ Tomorrow : KAL yesterday: KAL Hindi does not have seperate words for yesterday and tomorrow, the meaning is determined from the context that the word is used Day after tomorrow : PARSO ENGLISH: Would you like to eat something? HINDI : Kyaa aap kuchh khaanaa pasand karenge? क्या आप कुछ खाना पसंद करेंगें? ( This is used with respect to an older or unknown person) : Kyaa tum kuchh khaana pasand karoge? क्या तुम कुछ खाना पसंद करोगे? (This is used to address a younger person or a close friend) क्या : would - in this context, it also means "what" आप /तुम : you कुछ : some खाना : eat ( in this context ) also means -food for eg. give me food ........... hindi -- mujhe khaana do पसंद : like karoge : would you ,this is added to support the word.
Bharti ji - Aapse milkar khushi hui. Aapka yahan roz aana, humare liye bahut hi faaydemand saabit ho sakta hain. Thodi bahut tamasha bhi aazma lijiye aur kuch hume sikha bhi dijiye !!!
Heyy Jils....Thx for the info on History of Hindi. You are right that there is no harm in knowing a lil bit of background info. Khuda Haafiz!!
Tum kahan chhupe ho? Translation: Where are you hiding / hidden? tum - you kahan - where chhupe - hiding / hidden ho - are
mein roz subah yahaan aati hun I come here daily morning mein : I roz : daily subah : morning yahaan : here aati hun : I come DHANYAVAAD : THANK YOU !!!!!
Duniya humse naraz hain. (World is angry with me) duniya - world humse - with me naraz - angry hain - is
question : What is Rohan doing? Answer : Rohan kyaa kar rahaa hai? kyaa : what kar : doing kar raha hai: is doing QUESTION : Rohan is playing. ANSWER: Rohan khel rahaa hai. khel : play khel raha hai : is playing
Aaj humara tyohaar hain. (Today is our festival) aaj - today humara - our tyohaar - festival hain - is
