Hindi
Hindi is one of 99 world languages in the LEXOS registry, belonging to the Indo-European language family. Every word or phrase can be analysed across 6 linguistic levels: phonetics → phonology → morphology → syntax → semantics → pragmatics.
Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European; Devanagari script (abugida). Official language of India alongside English; grammatically near-identical to Urdu in speech, with the two diverging mainly in script and high-register vocabulary.
6 Levels of Analysis for Hindi
Other Indo-European languages
Frequently asked about Hindi
What language family does Hindi belong to?
Indo-European.
At which levels can I analyse Hindi?
Six levels: Phonetics (speech sounds, IPA), Phonology (phonemes and sound patterns), Morphology (word structure), Syntax (phrases and sentence structure), Semantics (literal meaning), Pragmatics (meaning in context).
Is Hindi one of the most spoken world languages?
Yes — LEXOS catalogues the 99 most-spoken / most-commercially-relevant world languages, covering every major language family and every continent.