WHERE IS HINDI SPOKEN ?   

         Hindi is spoken as a mother tongue in uttar pradesh, Haryana, Madhya pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Himachal pradesh. It is a second language in Punjab, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kashmir, West Bengal and Goa, where virtually everyone speaks and understands it. Hindi is also spoken by some in northern Andhra pradesh, Karnataka and parts of Orissa. Only in kerala and Tamil Nadu is Hindi of no use to you (people in Tamil Nadu are actively hostile to Hindi). Due to the popularity of Hindi films, the language is widely understood in Katmandu, the capital of Nepal, but not in the rest of the country.

          The northern language of India (Hindi, Gujaratu,Punjabi,Bengali and Marathi ) are closely related to each other , with similar script pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary ) . The southern language

(Tamil, malyalam, telugu and kannada) are similar to each other but very different to their northern counterparts. Both the northern and southern language is derived from Sanskrit. 

          The map in book is simplified you cannot draw an exact line where people don’t speak Hindi, because this depends on their education, occupation and so on. And there are hundreds of dialects, some of which claim to be separate language for a comparison of Hindi and Urdu. 

          You can use your Hindi in any of the areas north of the line shown on the map. But you’ll obviously do better in places where Hindi is the mother tongue. After a while you’ll be able to understand the gist of most conversations that you overhear and with luck much of what is said to you personally. 

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