Hindi

हिन्दी

Main information

Family	Indo-European
Branch	Indo-Iranian
Group	Indo-Aryan
	Indic
	Central zone
Native speakers	345,088,150
Status	National
Region	Widespread in north India: northern Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand states; Delhi.

Characteristic

SOV; postpositions; noun head final; content q-word in situ; gender (masculine/feminine); no articles; clause constituents partially indicated by case-marking (direct, oblique), postpositions, and word order; verbal affixation marks person, number, gender, and honorificity of subject; split ergativity; both tense and aspect; passives and voice; causatives; non-tonal; 30 consonants, 10 vowels, 2 diphthongs; stress linked to syllable weight.

Audio

Text

खड़क सिंह के खड़कने से खड़कती हैं खिड़कियाँ, खिड़कियों के खड़कने से खड़कता है खड़क सिंह

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