Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language given the status of being the official language of India, although other dialects may be more prevalent than Hindi in several areas. It currently has over 540 million speakers, with 425 million native speakers. Hindi is written using the Devanagari writing script, in which fourteen characters are vowels and thirty-three are consonants. There are several dialects of Hindi, including Khadiboli, Haryanvi, Braj Bhasha, Kannauji, Bundeli, Bagheli, Awadhi, and Chhattisgarhi.
Resources [For Beginning Students]:
Learn Hindi with HindiPod.com: This YouTube channel is based off of a separate website (https://www.hindipod101.com) , but it has tons of really helpful videos.
Omniglot Website: This website contains a brief overview of Hindi, including the writing script, and also has several links to other resources.