Hindi is India’s most spoken language, boasting over 400 million native speakers worldwide. As an intricate polyglot language with borrowings from Arabic, Persian, and English, Hindi remains popular today.
Hindi shares many characteristics with other Indo-Aryan languages, with ten vowels that may be lengthened or nasalized, 33 consonants including semivowels such as w and y, and 33 consonant sounds that make up its language.