Hindi language

Origin and history

Hindi evolved from the Middle Indo-Aryan prakrit languages of the Middle Ages, and indirectly, from Sanskrit.

Related Topics:
Middle Indo-Aryan - Prakrit - Middle Ages - Sanskrit

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Hindi became the official languagehttp://indiaimage.nic.in/languages.htm of India on January 26, 1965, although English and 21 other languages are recognised as official languages by the Constitution of India.

Related Topics:
January 26 - 1965 - English - Constitution of India

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Standardization of Hindi

After independence of India, the Government of India worked on standardizing Hindi, and the following changes took place:

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• standardization of Hindi grammar: In 1954, the Government of India set up a Committee to prepare a grammar of Hindi; The committee's report was released in 1958 as "A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi"
• standardization of Hindi spelling
• standardization of Devanagari (Devanāgarī) script by Central Hindi Directorate, Ministry of Education and Culture to bring about uniformity in writing and improve the shape of some of its characters.
• scientific mode of scribing the Devanagari alphabet
• incorporation of diacritics to express sounds from other languages

The Two parallel languages Urdu & Hindi's popularity has been helped by Bollywood, the Hindi film industry where peotry has always been dominated by Urdu already established and recognized as refined way of communication. These movies have an international appeal and now they have broken into the Western markets as well.

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