at the Beverly Hills Lingual Institute
Did you know?
Hindi uses the Devanagari script, which derives from Sanskrit. It is written from left to right and has no capital letters. The alphabet has seven vowels, 33 consonants, and three conjunct consonants.
Namaste! India has 23 official languages, with Hindi/ Urdu chief among them. Whether this is one language, Hindustani, or two dialects, is still fiercely contested. Hindi is spoken by more than 600 million people worldwide and is the fourth most spoken language in the world, behind Mandarin Chinese, English, and Spanish.
In science and information technology, India has an increasingly important global presence (and Hindi is the most widely spoken official language). The West has embraced Indian cuisine, so much so that chicken tikka masala has been one of Britain's preferred dishes for decades. Knowledge of this beautiful, ancient, elegant, and expressive language opens doors to the study of poetry, philosophy, sacred texts, and song.