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name: locale-hi-001
description: Use when working with the Hindi locale (`hi-001`) — its endonym हिन्दी, Devanagari script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.
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# Locale: Hindi (hi-001)

Reference data for the **Hindi** locale — endonym **हिन्दी**, written in the Devanagari script, left-to-right (LTR).

## Identifiers

- **BCP 47 tag:** `hi-001`
- **ISO 639-1:** `hi`
- **ISO 639-3:** `hin`
- **Script:** Deva (Devanagari)
- **Region:** 001 (World)
- **Text direction:** ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

## Speakers (approximate)

- **L1 (native):** 528,000,000
- **L2 (additional):** 274,000,000
- **L1+L2 (total):** 802,000,000

## Regional variants

This is the base/macro locale for Hindi. Region-specific variants in this dataset:

- [[locale-hi-in]] (Hindi (India))

## Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: **one**, **other** (2 forms).

- **one** — `i = 0 or n = 1` (e.g. 0, 1)
- **other** — everything else (e.g. 2~17, 100, 1000, 10000, …)

See [[unicode-messageformat]] for writing plural messages using these categories.

## Learn more

- [[locale]] for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
- [[unicode-messageformat]] for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.