Hello in hindi
In America, people love to say “ namaste“ to me when they realize I’m Indian. Namaste (नमस्ते) Author with her brother, resisting “namaste.” (Photo courtesy of Jeevika Verma) Here are five fun words that embody its intimate and abundant qualities:ġ. This diversity defines India’ core identity. Though I can’t provide a crash course on all of India’s wonderful regional languages, I can try my hand at Hindi: the language that represents centuries of India’s evolving socio-cultural contexts. So many languages in one country? That’s overwhelming! But I find it beautiful. Hindi or English usually accompany a third regional language specific to each state, such as Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, etc. In fact, recent outcries reveal that people are fighting to obtain official status for the 22 other regional and classical languages in India as well. Yet, despite it being widely understood in most states, Hindi isn’t the primary language in every Indian household. As a main language, Hindi written in a Devanagari script dominates in India, especially in the northern region (and is not to be confused with Urdu, which is written using Persian script).
I was born in the capital of New Delhi, where I grew up speaking Hindi and English in my household – both of which are India’s official languages. Although I’ve lived in three continents of the world during my short lifetime, my home country of India holds the biggest (and truest) part of me.