Hindustani
Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia, comprising the two normative forms of Hindi and Urdu
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Summary
Hindustani is a natural language[1]. Hindustani ranks in the top 5% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,485 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: India[3], Pakistan[4], Fiji[5], Guyana[6], Malaysia[7], Suriname[8], Trinidad and Tobago[9]
- Instance of: modern language[10], common language[11]
- Subclass of: Western Hindi[12]
- Writing system: Devanagari[13], Kaithi[14], Urdu orthography[15], Informal Roman Urdu[16]
- Commons category: Hindustani language[17]
- Topic's main category: Category:Hindustani language[18]
- Language regulatory body: Central Hindi Directorate[19]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 490,100,000[20]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[22], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[23], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[25], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[26]
- Partially coincident with: Kannauji[27], Braj Bhasha[28]
- Related Wikidata property: P11350[29]
- Native label: ہندوستانی[30], हिन्दुस्तानी[31]
- Different from: Hindi[32]
- Indigenous to: Pakistan[33], Delhi[34]
- Has grammatical case: obliquus in Hindi[35]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[36], syllabic language[37], fusional language[38]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[39], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[40]
- Has grammatical gender: feminine[41], masculine[42]
- Entry in abbreviations table: H.[43], ਹਿੰ.[44], ہ[45], ҳ.[46], hindost.[47]
- Category for music in this language: Category:Hindustani-language music[48]
Why It Matters
Hindustani has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] Hindustani is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]