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Name: Hindi
Type: Language
Alternate Names: High Hindi; Nagari Hindi; Literary Hindi; Standard Hindi; Khari Boli; Khadi Boli; Hindustani; Western Hindī; Western Hindi; Hindōstanī; Hindostani; Vernacular Hindostani
Spoken in: Belize, Nepal, USA, South Africa, India, Kenya, Yemen, Botswana, Bangladesh, Germany, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Zambia, Uganda, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Number of speakers: 180,000,000 in India (1991 UBS). Population total all countries: 181,676,620 (Ethnologue)
Code: hin
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup: Hindustani (hind)
Child Dialect Group: Literary Hindi; Hindi-Urdu; Literary Hindōstanī; Literary Hindostani (hin-lit)
Child Dialects: Urdu (hin-urd) Hindi; High Hindi; Nagari Hindi; Literary Hindi; Standard Hindi; Hindī (hin-hin) Dakhini (hin-dak) Rekhta; Rēkhta; Rēkhtī; Rekhti (hin-rek)

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