India Program/Indic Languages/Hindi

Introduction - Indic Languages

Hindi	Bengali	Marathi	Telugu	Tamil	Urdu	Kannada	Gujarati	Sindhi	Bhojpuri
Malayalam	Odia	Punjabi	Assamese	Nepali	Kashmiri	Newari	Bishnupriya Manipuri	Sanskrit	Pali

The number of speakers of Hindi is highly uncertain. It ranges from 25 crores to 43 crore. The primary reason for this is due to the inclusion or exclusion of speakers of certain languages (or dialects). The example of these languages are Bhojpuri, Rajastani, Chhattisgarhi, Angika, and many others. And some of these languages have wikipedia projects also. Even if we consider the low figure of 25 crore native languages speakers of Hindi, we can see that it is the biggest language of India in terms of number of speakers and it is a huge number. So developing Hindi wiki projects is very important since that will serve more than 25 crore speakers.

During 2012 January Hindi wikipedia was handing close to 1 lakh articles. But the number of active users is too low considering the huge number of articles. So I feel for Hindi Wikipedia the top priority is growing the community.