Hindi language

Number of Speakers

Hindi along with Urdu, is the second most-spoken language in the world, after Chinese. (This ranking comes from estimates from the CIA World Factbook for the year 2000; other language rankings differ.) About 500 million people speak Hindi, in India and abroad, and the total number of people who can understand the language may be 800 million. According to 1991 censushttp://www.censusindia.net/cendat/language/lang_table5.PDF 40.22% of the Indian population can speak Hindi, and 77% of the Indians regard Hindi as "one language across the nation".

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Chinese - CIA World Factbook - 2000 - Language rankings - 1991

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More than 180 million people in India regard Hindi as their mother tongue. Another 300 million use it as second language. Outside of India, Hindi speakers number 100,000 in the USA; 685,170 in Mauritius; 890,292 in South Africa; 232,760 in Yemen; 147,000 in Uganda; 5,000 in Singapore; 20,000 in New Zealand; 30,000 in Germany.

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USA - Mauritius - South Africa - Yemen - Uganda - Singapore - New Zealand - Germany

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