Hindi is the second most popular (spoken by most people) native language in the world! It is spoken by close to 700 million people as their mother tongue, and some 200 million people speak it as their second language.

Hindi is the official language of India and Fiji, but it is also spoken in Pakistan, Mauritius, Suriname, Guyana, and numerous other countries around the globe.

Unlike some may believe Hindi is no different from Urdu. Abdul Jamil Khan clarifies: "The story of Urdu/Hindi, the lingua franca of the Indo-Pakistani people, is the story of one language with two separate scripts and with two names: Hindi, when written in Nagari, and Urdu, when written in Arabic." (Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide. 2006. p. 3) The divide is indeed quite artificial, and both are essentially one language.

If you are looking for a Hindi/Urdu translator, we have a good recommendation to make.