A Guide to the Hindi Alphabet

A Guide to the Hindi Alphabet How to Learn to Speak Hindi: Learning the Devanagari Script ChaptersHow Do You Write in Hindi?History of the Devanagari ScriptBasics of the Hindi AlphabetLearning to Write the Hindi LettersHindi On Your Electronic DevicesSo you have decided to take the plunge and learn how to speak Hindi. You are eager to discover Indian culture and ready to immerse yourself in this Indo-European language.But of course, you can learn to speak Hindi - but you also need to learn to read and write it.So come  and discover the Hindi alphabet with us! by the end of the first millennium AD, it had evolved into Devanagari and Nandinagari (one of the Hindi alphabets used in central and south India, and that has also been used for Sanskrit.)Indic Keyboard for  Android devices that allows you to switch easily between various different Indian alphabets and English.On iPhones, you can simply add a new keyboard and switch by pressing down the “globe” icon on your current keyboard.Do you need to get a Hindi keyboard?To write the Devanagari script, you can simply change the keyboard options on your computer and type with your normal keyboard. Here is the usual layout (called InScript) on a normal QWERTY keyboard:An InScript keyboard for writing Hindi. Image by Suresh Kumar Shukla on Wikimedia Commons.However, if you don’t want to learn the layout by heart, you might want to invest in an InScript keyboard for when you have to do a lot of typing in Hindi.