Hindi translations for your company

It is estimated that there are more than 1,500 individual languages on the Indian subcontinent. These include 15 main regional languages, each with over 20 million speakers. In the multi-ethnic nation of India, Hindi is the official language alongside English – the Indian constitution also recognizes another 21 languages that can serve as official languages on a regional basis. The official language of Pakistan – besides English – is Urdu, while in Bangladesh it is Bengali and Sinhala in Sri Lanka.

The Indian languages can be classified into four language families: The most commonly spoken are Indo-Aryan languages, which belong to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language groups. Speakers of these languages are estimated to number over 400 million. The second largest language group are Dravidian languages, which are spoken by approximately 150 million people; they constitute a separate language family comprising some 25 languages. A multitude of dialects can be classified as belonging to the Austroasiatic language family (Munda and Mon-Khmer languages, around six million speakers) and the Sino-Tibetan language family (Tibetan-Burmese languages, a few hundred thousand speakers).

The Indo-Aryan languages have a long-standing literary tradition; of particular importance in this context are ancient Indian Sanskrit and Vedic, the oldest Indo-Aryan language (around 1500 BC). The many different Indian scripts all evolved from the Brahmi script. They are all “Abugidas” – a hybrid of syllabic and alphabetic scripts – written from left to right.