Hindi is a Major, Indo-Aryan language, a descendent of Sanskrit, which is spoken in the central and northern India.

Hindi Text Corpus encoded in a machine readable form and stored in a standard format. The major encoding being used is Unicode and stored in XML format.The data is embedded with metadatainformation. The corpus has been created from contemporary text in typed and crawled methods.LDC-IL Hindi Text Corpus size is 10317177 words drawn from 1223 different titles. The four major domains are Aesthetics, Social Sciences, Mass Media and Science & Technology.