Editing Hindustani language (section)

===Standard Hindi===
{{Main|Hindi}}
Standard Hindi, one of the [[official languages of India|22 officially recognized languages of India]] and the [[official language]] of the Union, is usually written in the indigenous [[Devanagari]] script of India and exhibits less Persian and Arabic influence than Urdu. It has a literature of 500 years, with prose, poetry, religion and philosophy. One could conceive of a wide spectrum of dialects and registers, with the highly Persianised Urdu at one end of the spectrum and a heavily Sanskritised variety spoken in the region around [[Varanasi]], at the other end. In common usage in India, the term ''Hindi'' includes all these dialects except those at the Urdu spectrum. Thus, the different meanings of the word ''Hindi'' include, among others:{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
# standardized Hindi as taught in schools throughout India (except some states such as Tamil Nadu),
# formal or official Hindi advocated by [[Purushottam Das Tandon]] and as instituted by the post-independence Indian government, heavily influenced by Sanskrit,
# the vernacular dialects of Hindustani as spoken throughout India,
# the neutralized form of Hindustani used in popular television and films (which is nearly identical to colloquial Urdu), or
# the more formal neutralized form of Hindustani used in television and print news reports.