What's the difference between devanagari and hindi?

Devanagari


Definition:

  • (n.) The character in which Sanskrit is written.

Example Sentences:

Hindi


Definition:

  • (n.) The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Speaking in Hindi (her granddaughters translate for her with doctors), Chauhan says she did not tell her friends about the cancer.
  • (2) This region, on the margin of the vast northern state of Uttar Pradesh, is the Hindi heartland.
  • (3) In Study 2, Hindi-English bilinguals were tested in both their languages.
  • (4) To clarify these conflicting claims, EMG recordings were obtained from the palatoglossus (as well as the levator palatini) muscle of a native speaker of Hindi who produced CVC nonsense and meaningful syllables containing a nasal or nonnasal vowel in a symmetric consonantal environment.
  • (5) Radio broadcasts in China, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey will be axed, and shortwave broadcasts will cease in Hindi.
  • (6) URL: Kenyan police again disputed this explanation, with the deputy inspector general, Grace Kaindi, claiming that writing on a blackboard found at a junction near Hindi with could implicate the Mombasa Republic Movement (MRC) , a group that campaigns for independence of the coastal region.
  • (7) But Obama, who visited India in November 2010, charmed his hosts with flattering references to their country's heritage and booming economy, a stab at speaking Hindi in parliament and a promise of support for a permanent seat on the United Nations security council, a long-cherished ambition that is extremely unlikely to be fulfilled any time soon.
  • (8) Since its launch in 1997 around 15 million people have signed up to Shaadi.com ( "shaadi" is Hindi for marriage) with five million using it at any given time.
  • (9) Why?” Jyoti, initially given the name Nirbhaya, meaning fearless in Hindi, to preserve her anonymity, died after 13 days.
  • (10) Most of the output is in English, but there are programmes in Hindi-Urdu, Mirpuri, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi.
  • (11) It mistakenly referred to the Hindi festival of Navatri.
  • (12) Photograph: Lechal The Lechal shoes - which means “take me along” in Hindi - were originally developed to help navigation for the visually impaired, but applications for fitness and the sighted were quickly realised.
  • (13) Employing a Hindi adaptation of the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (MHQ), neuroticism level was assessed in 133 subjects with irritable bowel syndrome and compared with that in patients with organic bowel disease (33), healthy population (140) and known neurotics (110).
  • (14) He stressed the importance of the World Service and described the corporation's Arabic, Somali and Hindi networks as lying "at the core of what the BBC is doing".
  • (15) The third Briton– and final speaker – in the video, identified as Abu Dujana al-Hindi, describes his monologue as a "message to the brothers who stayed behind".
  • (16) And you certainly don't spot his qualities in most contemporary Hindi films.
  • (17) An AFP reporter in Hindi said all of the dead in the town were men, apart from a teenage boy reportedly shot as he tried to run away.
  • (18) But Puranik, who arranged the pregnancy, set a fixed rate, and the clients spoke neither Hindi nor Marathi, the languages Kalpita knows.
  • (19) There's a bit of everything, from Hindi punk rap to the self-referential Boom Skit about her time in America ("Brown girl, turn your shit down… Let you into Super Bowl, you try to steal Madonna's crown"), to the gorgeous lushness of Sexodus, a collaboration with The Weeknd .
  • (20) In India, it’s called the “jugaad”, a Hindi word that roughly translates as “innovative fix” or “improvised solution”.

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