What is the history of the Hindi Language?

Hindi was adopted as the official language of India on this day, January 26, in the year 1965. Like many European languages, Hindi is also written from left to right. Around 120 million people use it as their second language. Hindi, English and most other European languages share the same ancestral roots. They evolved from a language spoken in Central Asia around 5000 B.C., termed by linguists as the Indo-European parent language. It is interesting to note that Hindi and English share so many different words that mean the same thing in both languages. English words that have their origins in Hindi include loot, thug, pundit, juggernaut, coolie, cot, bandana, and dungaree. Hindi was initially a diluted version of Sanskrit, which happened to absorb several ‘loan words’ from Arabic and Persian. It was used largely for ease of communication between the natives of North India and the newly settled immigrants from Persia and Arabia. The language though, traveled far and wide as the Sultanate expanded, till it finally became the official language under the British colonization. Today, Hindi is the official language of the Republic of India and a common second language in Mauritius, Trinidad, Fiji, Surinam, and Guyana.

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