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Romanized Hindi
According to Palakodety (p. 7-9, link), Romanized Hindi is the "dominant form of native language expression online" in India. In particular, they provide the results of a study of YouTube comments: 52% are written in Romanized Hindi, 46% in English, and only 1% in Devanagari Hindi.
I couldn't find other sources, but this is consistent with what Indian friends told me, and what I could see myself, for instance on the official Twitter accounts of the largest Hindi-language TV channels:
- Sony Entertainment Television's Twitter account: https://twitter.com/sonytv
- StarPlus's Twitter account: https://twitter.com/StarPlus
- Star Bharat's Twitter account: https://twitter.com/StarBhara
I suggest writing: "Devanagari script [Deva], traditional and formal usage. Latin script, recent informal usage, especially online on social media."
We will add Latin as a script (writing system) for Hindi [hin] with the following statement: "recent informal usage, especially online on social media". This addition will be included in the next edition of the Ethnologue.