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Hindi Language and Literature |
 | | Hindi is a direct descendant of Sanskrit through Prakrit and Apabhramsha. |
 | | Outside of India, Hindi speakers are 100,000 in USA; 685,170 in Mauritius; 890,292 in South Africa; 232,760 in Yemen; 147,000 in Uganda; 5,000 in Singapore; 8 million in Nepal; 20,000 in New Zealand; 30,000 in Germany. |
 | | Urdu, the official language of Pakistan, spoken by about 41 million in Pakistan and other countries, is essentially the same language. |
| www.cs.colostate.edu /~malaiya/hindiint.html (844 words) |
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