World Hindi Day

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2027 InternationalJan 10 International Sun, Jan 10Observances Holiday 2026 InternationalJan 10 International Sat, Jan 10Observances Holiday 2025 InternationalJan 10 International Fri, Jan 10Observances Holiday 2024 InternationalJan 10 International Wed, Jan 10Observances Holiday 2023 InternationalJan 10 International Tue, Jan 10Observances Holiday
Summary
Modern Hindi today is spoken by more than 250 million people as a first language.

January 10th is celebrated as World Hindi Day.

January 10th marks the first World Hindi Conference that took place in 1975, in Nagpur, Maharashtra. In 2006. 122 delegates from 30 countries attended, and then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared January 10 as World Hindi Day. An objective of the occasion is to present Hindi as an international language.

Hindi was adopted as the Official Language of Republic of India in 1949 on the 50th birthday of Beohar Rajendra Simha.

Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in North India. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the two official languages of the Government of India, along with the English language.

It is an official language in 9 States and 3 Union Territories and an additional official language in 3 other States. Hindi is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India.

Countries where Hindi is spoken

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