Laravel localization in Hindi हिन्दी

Locale codes

Set the base locale in config/app.php. For regional variants, Hindi commonly uses: hi_IN

// config/app.php
'locale' => 'hi',
'fallback_locale' => 'en',

// Or switch at runtime
App::setLocale('hi');

Plural rules: what Hindi actually needs

CLDR defines 2 cardinal categories for Hindi. The sample numbers below were computed by ICU for this exact locale:

Laravel's trans_choice() maps numbers to 2 pipe-separated forms for this locale:

// lang/hi/messages.php
'items' => ':count item|:count items'

// Usage
trans_choice('messages.items', $count, ['count' => $count]);

Try any number live in the pluralization tester.

Localized dates with Carbon

Real output for Hindi (hi locale), generated by Carbon for March 21, 2026:

$date = now()->locale('hi');

$date->translatedFormat('l, j F Y');
// "शनिवार, 21 मार्च 2026"

$date->isoFormat('LLLL');
// "शनिवार, 21 मार्च 2026, दोपहर 2:30 बजे"

$date->isoFormat('L');
// "21/03/2026"

$date->subDays(3)->diffForHumans();
// "3 महीने पहले"

What to watch out for in Hindi

• Written in Devanagari, which uses combining marks; ensure fonts and text rendering support complex scripts.
• Subject-object-verb word order with postpositions instead of prepositions; avoid mid-sentence placeholder assumptions.
• Formal आप vs informal तुम/तू address distinction; verbs also agree with gender.
• Indian digit grouping uses lakh/crore (1,00,000 rather than 100,000).

Framework strings already translated

Laravel's own validation, auth and pagination strings are maintained in Hindi by the open-source Laravel-Lang project (MIT). Install them, then manage your app's own strings live:

composer require laravel-lang/common --dev
php artisan lang:add hi
php artisan lang:update