[tnsittpsif]

Speak Hindi all day, but cannot guess a single letter in a 100 tries!

Shows how much this language's usage in writing and reading has declined.

[Grumpy34]

I'm also a native Hindi speaker and I've never in my life used the word which is the correct answer. The game creator should have chosen more popular words.

[aldebran]

I’m in the US and very rarely speak Hindi let alone read it and got it in the first try. I thought it’s a very common word, no?

[umeshunni]

Do most Hindi speakers now use the Latin script?

[txtsd]

Yes, and it's awful because it isn't standardized. Current generations frequently use only consonants to type out a word and I have no idea how to pronounce them. For example "hai" (pronounced "hey") roughly translates to "is". I literally see kids typing a singular "h" instead.

[captn3m0]

Depends a lot on the medium and the demographic. Twitter has a lot of native Hindi users, and there’s more on some platforms such as Sharechat which focus on Indic languages.

Twitter even does a good enough job of translating Hindi written in the Devnagri script. Doesn’t work if you use Latin script obviously.

[throwaway158497]

Not really. news channels, print media, billboards, internet websites use devanagari script. But in Messenger apps, FB, Telegram, people use latin script.

[cuteboy19]

devanagari is not meant for such puzzles

[plibither8]

In what way is it not meant for puzzles, as opposed to English?