The emergence of digital communication technologies has profoundly altered the landscape of language use across the world, and Hindi is no exception to this transformation. As one of the most widely spoken languages globally and the official language of India, Hindi faces a unique set of challenges related to spelling consistency and orthographic standardization in the era of internet and digital media. This paper examines the multifaceted challenges confronting Hindi spelling in digital spaces, including the proliferation of non-standard transliteration practices, inconsistency in Unicode encoding, the absence of a universally accepted digital orthographic standard, the influence of code-switching and hybrid linguistic registers, and the inadequacy of existing spell-checking and natural language processing (NLP) tools. Drawing on scholarship from linguistics, digital humanities, and language policy studies, the paper argues that the standardization of Hindi spelling in digital media requires a coordinated, multi-stakeholder effort encompassing government agencies, technology developers, linguistic scholars, and user communities. The paper also discusses the sociological implications of orthographic fragmentation and proposes pathways toward achieving greater consistency in digital Hindi writing.
Dr. Nutan Satapathy (Fri,) studied this question.