नमस्ते!
say it: “nuh-MUS-tay”
Hindi
in its own words: हिन्दी
- Speakers
- 610 million (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Indo-Aryan
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
- Script
- Devanagari
- Official language
- India
Fun fact
It is written in Devanagari, an abugida: consonant signs carry an inherent vowel and a horizontal headline (shirorekha) joins the letters of a word.