Most of the world's 260 million native Hindi speakers are located in Nepal and India, while an estimated 120 million more people in India use Hindi as their second language. Hindi is also the most widely spoken language of India!
Just like all the other Indian languages, a lot of Hindi loanwords found in English were adopted during the British Raj in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But long before that, rupee ( year 1612 ), guru ( year 1613 ), pilau ( year 1609 ), myna ( year 1620 ), and juggernaut ( year 1638 ) had appeared.
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