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Hindi. For other uses, see Hindi (disambiguation).

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Hindi
हिन्दी or मानक हिन्दी Hindī or Mānak Hindī
The word "Hindi" in Devanagari script
Pronunciation	Hindustani pronunciation: [ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Native to	India Significant communities in South Africa, Nepal
Native speakers	180 million  (1991)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Sanskrit Central Zone (Hindi) Western Hindi Hindustani[2] Khariboli[2] Hindi
Writing system	Devanagari (Brahmic) Hindi Braille
Signed forms	Signed Hindi
Official status
Regulated by	Central Hindi Directorate[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-1	hi
ISO 639-2	hin
ISO 639-3	hin
Linguist list	hin-hin
Glottolog	hind1269[4]
Linguasphere	59-AAF-qf
Areas (red) where Hindustani (Khariboli/Kauravi) is the native language, compared to all Indic languages (dark grey)

Hindi (हिन्दी), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (मानक हिन्दी), is astandardised and Sanskritised registerof the Hindustani language. Hindustani is the native language of most people living in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh,Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Bihar, Jharkhand,Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, andRajasthan.^[5] Modern Standard Hindi is one of the official languages of India.

As of 2009, the best figure Ethnologuecould find for speakers of actual Hindustani Hindi was 180 million in 1991.^[1] In the 2001 Indian census, 258 million (258,000,000) people in India reported Hindi to be their native language,^[6] which not only includes Hindu speakers of Hindustani, but also people who identify as native speakersof related languages who consider their speech to be a dialect of Hindi, the Hindi belt.