| You cannot speak or learn to speak Hindu because | | | | countries Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. |
| Hinduism is a religion, not a form of speech. People | | | | There are also several hundred other tongues spoken |
| who practice Hinduism are called Hindu or Hindus and | | | | in India which basically derive from several major |
| this is where the confusion often arises. | | | | linguistic families. |
| Hinduism is a primary religion of such countries as India, | | | | The northern languages have mostly evolved from the |
| Mauritius and Sri Lanka. Many other regions of the | | | | Indo-Aryan ancient ways such as Sanskrit. |
| world also have a section of the population who are | | | | Southern Indian speakers are using a style derived |
| part of the Hindu faith. Also Fijians of Indian descent | | | | from the so-called Dravidian language family. Some of |
| speak a language called Hindustani. | | | | the best known dialects included in Dravidian speech |
| So what language do Hindus speak? Hindus living in | | | | are Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. |
| India mostly use Hindi. It is one of the two official | | | | The word Dravidian was coined by an Anglican |
| languages of India. The other is English. | | | | missionary Robert Caldwell. It is derived from the |
| Hindi is the fourth most widely spoken language in the | | | | Sanskrit term Dravida which was commonly used |
| world after Mandarin, Spanish and English. | | | | when referring to Tamil. |
| People in the north of India use it the most, but they | | | | As you can imagine, the linguistic history of India is a |
| also speak Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi or Bangali. Hindi is | | | | huge subject. But, if you want to learn the language of |
| also widely spoken in central India. Even the people | | | | India for personal or for business reasons, now you |
| who do not speak Hindi as their own regional dialect | | | | know that it is not Hindu language that you need. It is |
| understand it. So too do the people of neighbouring | | | | Hindi. |