India´s culture is among the world´s oldest.
The official language of India is Hindi. Hindi´s name comes from the Persian word Hind that means "Land of the Indus river", and now Hindi means "Language of the land of the Indus river".
This language belongs to the family of Aryan languages which are the dominant language family of the Indian subcontinent.
Hindi has at least 13 different dialects. This language was chosen by the government, this was because it has connection with India´s history before it´s independence. Before this, there wasn´t an official language but the Indians a part from Hindi also used to speak British english, but not all of them. The reason why Hindi was chosen wasn´t because of the majority of people that used to spoke it, but because of the facts mentioned before.
The dialect of Hindi is based in Khariboli, which is the prestige dialect of Hindustani. Hindi alphabet has 35 consonants and 11 vowels.
Nowadays Hindi is written in Devanagari script which is made by two words, "Deva" meaning "God" and "Nagari" meaning "of urban origin".
It´s quite hard learning Hindi although some words are similar to the english ones, but a good fact about Hindi is that it´s written from left to right.
"There is a great diversity among different regions of India in terms of language, cuisine, culture and dress. But though we all are different we all are Indians. We owe a lot of the Indians who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made".
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