Foreign Connection

Indian languages are considered as mother of all, the languages spoken around the world have same script as that of Indian languages. Like many other common Indian languages, Hindi is supposed to be evolved from Sanskrit which is by way a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit languages of the Middle Ages. Though there is no accord for a specific time, Hindi was supposed to be originated as local dialects such as Braj, Awadhi and finally Khari Boli after the tenth century. In the extent of nearly a thousand years of Muslim influence, as when Muslim rulers had controlled almost all of northern India during the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire, many Persian and Arabic words were absorbed into khari boli and the was named as Urdu. As most of the Arabic words came through Persian, they would not preserve the original phonology of Arabic.

Hindi can be contrasted with Urdu in the way that both languages were written, and the use of Sanskrit vocabulary in higher registers. Urdu is the official language of Pakistan and also an official language in some parts of India. The primary differences between the two are the way Standard Hindi is written in Devanagari and it expands its vocabulary using (Indo-Aryan) Sanskrit words, while Urdu is written in Urdu script, which is a variant to the (Semitic) Perso-Arabic script, and again it draws a lot on Persian and Arabic vocabulary. (It is just the literary vocabulary that shows that there is a visible distinction between the everyday vocabulary which is essentially common between the two.).

Hindi language is mainly spoken in the northern states of Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar, and it is also spoken alongside some Common Indian Languages like Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi or Bengali throughout north and central India. Hindi, being one of the common Indian languages is also understood and spoken in many other parts of India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

One of the most astonishing thing is that Hindustani is spoken by all persons of Indian descent in Fiji. Even in Western Viti Levu and Northern Vanua Levu, Hindustani is a common spoken language and it is the only link language spoken between Fijians of Indian descent and the native Fijians. The native Fijians are considered the only race in the world of non Indian descent that includes majority Hindi speakers. Native speakers of Hindi dialects account for 48% of the Fiji population. This also includes all people of Indian ancestry including those whose forefathers emigrated from regions in India, where Hindi was not generally spoken. Hindi is one of the three official languages of communication other than the English and Fijian approved by Fijians constitution. Every person in Fiji who wants to transact a business with a department or an office in a state service; or a local authority; has the right to do so only in English, Fijian or Hindustani, done either directly or through an competent interpreter accompanied by them.

Such is the poise and power of Indian languages that even foreign countries use them as a tool for communication .