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Hindi is the language, and devanagari is its script.
Viki lists languages, not scripts. Because each script can be used for many languages. For instance in the list you will find “English”, “French”, “Italian”, “Spanish” and so on, but not “Latin script” (because that script is used for many languages and it would be confusing).

The Devanagari script (देवनागरी, romanized: Devanāgarī) is the official script of Bodo, Dogri, Hindi, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit, Santali[b] and Sindhi[c] languages, 10 of the 22 official languages of the Indian Republic, and also of Nepal. It was developed and in regular use by the 7th century CE and achieved its modern form by 1000 CE. The Devanāgari script, composed of 48 primary characters, including 14 vowels and 34 consonants, is the fourth most widely adopted writing system in the world, being used for over 120 languages.
The orthography of this script reflects the pronunciation of the language.

The Constitution of India says:

The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script. The form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of the Union shall be the international form of Indian numerals.

— Part XVII of the Indian Constitution[18]

Being the official script for Hindi, Devanagari is officially used in the Union Government of India as well as several Indian states where Hindi is recognised as their official language, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and the Indian union territories of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Gujarat and West Bengal also officially uses Devanagari as these 2 states recognises Hindi as their additional official languages.

So what other script would you be using, if not that?
Or do you mean that you would write Hindi using the Latin alphabet? LOL.

Latin script

The Latin script (or Roman script) is the sole official script for English language (Indian English), one of the official languages of the Union Government of India as well as many states and union territories of India.
Indian English is a group of English dialects spoken in the Republic of India and among the Indian diaspora. English is used by the Indian government for communication, along with Modern Standard Hindi, as enshrined in the Constitution of India. English is also an official language in seven states and seven union territories of India, and the additional official language in seven other states and one union territory. Furthermore, English is the sole official language of the Indian Judiciary, unless the state governor or legislature mandates the use of a regional language, or if the President of India has given approval for the use of regional languages in courts.

In short: In India, Devanagari script is for Hindi (and many other Indian languages) while Latin script is only for English.
You’ve been learning the language since the age of 13 and you didn’t know that? (Unless 13 is not such a long ago for you)

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Ok I understand but let me tell you that when I first started learning Hindi I learned first how to speak it and I have recently mastered how to write it and I’m not 13 I’m 23 :smiling_face:

Whenever I start learning a language I always start from the basics of it and I know that the scrip is called Devangari. Beside Hindi I undersand a bit Gujrati, Marathi and Bengali (but I’m not fluent in them like Hindi which I also can write now)
What I mean by this is that I’m not a beginner in the Hindi language.

I also meant the laptop keybord by my quesion nott just the language bcuz I have for some reason two different keyboards in mine. One for Hindi and one for devangari why is that? It should only be one!

Thank You

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For the keyboard question, you have to wait for a Hindi volunteer, they might be able to help.
The only thing that I found on this is:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-set-up-and-use-indic-phonetic-keyboards-7c4d2e8a-abf2-f200-9866-1a4cead7b127

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Thanks for the help :grinning:

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So you learned the writing system 10 years after you had started learning the language?

You do seem to be a beginner in the script, which is an essential part of the language.

It might be the same as with the Korean keyboard setting, where you can switch between Hangeul and Latin, even though Hangeul is the only official script for Korean. It’s just a handy way to type something in another script if you need to without having to change your settings.

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I’m impressed that you know so many languages. Swedish, Hindi and Japanese. I know a few languages but I only translate in to one and thats the one I speak with ppl everyday. :slight_smile:

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Arabic is my mothertounge which i speak mostly at home & I learned English & Swedish in school (becuz I live in Sweden) I learned Hindi & Japanese just for fun becuz I love learning new languages.

It does get a little confusing though becuz I do mix languges sometimes😅

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I just prefered to take my time in learning the script bcuz it seemed very complicated to me when I first started learning Hindi.

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Hi everyone ! I’d like to help on subbtitling from English to French so let me know if you need someone. Please find below link to reach my profile.

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I am a Gboard user, and from what i know and understand, the Hindi [Latin] and Hinglish keyboards are in latin script and are mainly what most of us hindi speakers use for chatting. It’s autocorrect, suggest tab and spelling check features are programmed for the hindi language, just in latin script. For example, if i were to write a hindi word in the hindi [latin] keyboard, it won’t be underlined in red, whereas same word would be underlined in the english keyboard. It’s just about convenience, like @/mirjam_465 said.
Whereas, like @/irmar mentioned, the Devanagri script is used in all the official documents and is what’s taught in schools, hence subtitling should be done in Devanagri.

If you said that you’re fluent in writing hindi, why are you looking for someone who recruits non-Devanagri subtitlers? Unless you’re only fluent in writing hindi in the latin script. If that’s the case, then i suggest practicing with the phonetic keyboard irmar shared. It converts the latin words to devanagri based on how they sound, but you should at least be able to read it and have a little knowledge about spellings and vowel diacritic so you’d be able to check if the conversion is correct or not.

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Heyy …
I’ve noticed your website could use English to Urdu subtitles. I’d like to offer my assistance with that task. Let me know how I can contribute

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Hello, I’d love to help sub Chinese to English! Here’s my profile: Watch Korean Dramas, Chinese Dramas and Movies Online | Rakuten Viki

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Hello my name is Emeline and i’m available for translante English to French ! I can do a lot of project like drama, anime in Korean,japanese … or other ! I’m curious :smiley:
Contact me if you need!

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Hello! I’m Koalii and i can translate English to Portuguese! Feel free to send me a message if i can help with something ^^

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Hello,

I am new here!
I would like to translate from English to Portuguese or from English to Spanish!
Porfile: Watch Korean Dramas, Chinese Dramas and Movies Online | Rakuten Viki

Yours sincerely,
Miguel Cunha

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Hi^^
I am new here!
I would like to translate from English to Italian!

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Hi! I am new on this community and I would like to translate from English/French to Spanish.
Let me know if you need help with the translation of any drama!

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olá, sou brasileira e gostaria de colaborar com as legendas de Inglês para Português. Aguardo contato!

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Thanks for the tag, dear.
But Tagalog and Telugu are different languages.
Tagalog is mostly spoken in Philippines and Telugu is mostly spoken in India.

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Hi. I am a student currently pursuing degree of translation and interpretation. I would like to do subtitle translation for Chinese-Malay for my final year project.

Please kindly contact me if any available.

Thank you so much!

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