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Articles: Arts and Culture | Hindi: India's Pride.
- Mr. Srikanth Chintala
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India boasts 18 officially recognised languages along with 535 dialects (languages with no script) to its credit. Out of so many, 'Hindi' was crowned as 'Rashtra Basha'. There are various sources describing the origin and development of this language. But I found that almost all of them support either of the following two explanations:
Explanation 1: Hindi (originally a persian word meaning 'Indian') is a member of the Indo-Aryan language family. It's ancestry is tied up with Sanskrit, which is believed to be the mother of many other world’s most important languages. Sanskrit was brought to India from the north-east in approximately the 2nd millennium B.C. and eventually gave rise to the modern Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati etc. Hindi is written in the Devanagari script, said to be the most scientific writing system of all those in the world. The Devanagari script is written from left to right, and descended from the Brahmi script, which was well established in India before 500 B.C.
Explanation 2: The word ‘Hindi’ is known from as early as the thirteenth century. The language was developed out of the structure of the dialect called Khariboli, interspersed with the vocabulary of Persian and Arabic during the period of Moghul rule (15th-18th centuries AD). Khariboli developed two distinct literary styles written in two different scripts; Urdu in the Perso-Arabic script and Hindi in the Devanagari.
Hindi developed into a national language during the colonial period when British began to cultivate it as a standard among government officials. It then started to be used for literary purposes. After India won the independence, the new constitution, which was adopted on January 26, 1950, granted to Hindi the status of the Official Language of the Republic of India.
Today more than 600 million people speak the Hindi language, not only in India but also in almost every other country in the world (Probably thats because you find an Indian in almost every corner of the world) thus making it the third most spoken language in the world.
Srikanth chintala
http://www.srikanthonline.com
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