Within any language or language group there may be significant changes in speech, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The term used to describe these changes is called a dialect. Some words or phrases that exist in one dialect may exist or be absent from different dialect. The most common dialect in the Hindi language is the Khariboli Dialect. Khariboli is recognized as the standard Hindi dialects.

Hindi Dialects Map

• Khariboli Hindi – Which is spoken in Western Uttar Pradesh. Considered to be the Official Dialect of Hindi.
• Bambaiya Hindi – A slang form of Hindi-Urdu which is spoken primarily in Bombay (Mumbai).
• Brajbhasa Hindi – spoken in the region of Braj.
• Kanauji Hindi –
• Bundeli Hindi –
• Bagheli Hindi –
• Chhattisgarhi Hindi –
• Hariyanvi Hindi –
• Bhaya Hindi –
• Chamari Hindi –
• Ghera Gowli Hindi –

Different Hindi dialects of the Hindi language are spoken in many different nations and regions around the world, most commonly throughout Southern Asia. However, the differences in regional dialects may not make one Hindi speaker nearly incomprehensible to another. In most cases, the different Hindi dialects don’t have a specific written form of the language, but there’s usually a certain amount of literature that accompanies each Hindi dialects.

Interested in further study into Hindi or confused on where to start? I recommend reading our Hindi Beginners Guide