Hindi Bole! - The Fourth Most Spoken Language In The World

But why Hin·di (hĭn'dē)?

A search on Google for 'Hindi' gives barely 19,600,000 entries which is not very high; Isn't it?

So who on earth is going to be interested in speaking(bole) this language(bhasha)?

Many, I say and I'm not the only one.

Columbia University Press- Some 300 million people speak Hindi as their primary language; most of them live in India.

WordNet - the most widely spoken of modern Indic vernaculars; spoken mostly in the north of India; along with English it is the official language of India; usually written in Devanagari script.

Wikipedia-More than 180 million people in India regard Standard Hindi as their mother tongue, making it the fourth-most spoken language in the world. Another 300 million use it as second language. Outside 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, 8 million in Nepal, 5,000 in Singapore, 20,000 in New Zealand and 30,000 in Germany.

Isn't that impressive?

Of course, you will agree it certainly is.

Now, can I ask you to see with me the Hindi page at http://www.answers.com/hindi where you will be able to check up these numbers and find some elementary but pertinent and entertaining information about this hugely popular language.

That's all for now.

[Hindi Hindī, from Hind, India, from Persian, from Old Persian Hinduš, Sind, from Sanskrit sindhuḥ, river.]

Namasté!