NUMBER OF SPEAKERS WORLDWIDE:

• Over 800 million people (first and second language speakers)

• Mainly in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Fiji, Mauritius, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana

• The Dhar India Studies Program offers 3 years of Hindi language instruction.
• Beginning Hindi-Urdu is a combined class in which Hindi and Urdu undergraduate students are
  placed together along with graduate students.
• Undergraduate students can fulfill the foreign language requirement by finishing two years of Hindi.
• We conduct the Hindi Proficiency test every semester for students who want to test out of their
  foreign language requirement on the Bloomington campus and  at IU's other satellite campuses.