Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language with about 200 million speakers. It is one of the official languages of India and is used as the language of administration, the media, education and literature in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Elsewhere in India, Hindi is used, along side English, as a second language.

Hindi is also spoken in Nepal, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda. Hindi is closely related to Urdu, the main language of Pakistan, which is written with the Arabic script.

Hindi first started to be used in writing during the 4th century AD. It was originally written with the Brahmi script but since the 11th century AD it has been written with the Devanagari alphabet. The first printed book in Hindi was John Gilchrist's Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language which was published in 1796.

Hindi is one of the major languages in Asia, but is also spoken in the UK and other parts of Europe as an ethnic language.

Hindi is one of the languages regularly translated by Comms Multilingual. Hindi translation projects have included work on advertisements, brochures, instructions for mobile phones, manuals, newsletters and typesetting.