Information about hindi language resources, downloadable software, hindi sites etc.
In recent years, many prominent Hindi news organizations have improved their online presence. From the unreadable and non-standard fonts, we now have several quality standard compliant sites. Here is a list of some of them.
Dainik Bhaskar (meaning Daily Sun) is one of the fastest growing Hindi newspaper in Northern India.
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Here is a selection of English Hindi dictionaries on the internet.
Shabdkosh.com is one of the few online English Hindi dictionaries that has powerful search system and is rapidly growing! This is also the top ranked (by Google, Yahoo and Live Search) English Hindi dictionary site in the world. It supports both English to Hindi and Hindi to English searches. For help with pronunciation, it has audio playback facility for English words.
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This is the Shabdanjali Dictionary that is licensed under GPL. Once you download this file to your computer, it can be opened using WinZip (or some other program that can read Zip files). There will be one file for each alphabet and that will have words, meanings and example sentences.
Download eng-hindi-dict-utf8.zip
This is the public domain dictionary ‘The Students Practical Dictionary’, fifth edition, compiled by Ram Narain Lal in 1936.
Download eng-hin.pdf
Here is a English-Hindi dictionary that you can install on the computer and do not need to be online to search meanings. It is a very good dictionary.
This dictionary is a combined package of StarDict (a free dictionary software under GPL) and Shabdajali. Shabdanjali has been developed by the Language Technology Research Center at Indian Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India.
Download shabdanjali.zip
To download the StarDict source code (not applicable to most users), please see http://stardict.sourceforge.net.