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14/09/22 21:35 PM IST

Hindi Diwas

In News 
  • Indian languages, including Tamil, should be made official languages of the Union government and Indian Languages Day should be celebrated rather than the Hindi Diwas.
Hindi Diwas 
  • Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, was adopted as the official language of the Republic of India on 14th September, 1949.
  • Kaka Kalelkar, Maithili Sharan Gupta, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Seth Govindadas made important contributions to make Hindi the official language.
  • The first Hindi Day was celebrated in 1953.
  • Besides Hindi, English is the other official language (Article 343 of the Constitution).
  • Hindi is also an eighth schedule language.
  • Article 351 pertains to ‘Directive for development of the Hindi language’.
  • Hindi is not a classical language.
World Hindi Day:
  • It is observed on 10th January.
  • Commemorates the anniversary of the first World Hindi Conference held in Nagpur on 10th January, 1975, which saw 122 delegates from 30 countries participating in it.
  • First celebrated in 2006 by former Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh with an aim to promote Hindi language across the world.
  • The World Hindi Secretariat building was inaugurated in Mauritius in 2018.
Origin of Hindi language 
  • Hindi got its name from the Persian word Hind, meaning 'land of the Indus River'.
  • Turkish invaders in the early 11th century named the language of the region Hindi, 'language of the land of the Indus River'.
  • The modern Devanagari script came into existence in the 11th century.
Source- PIB 

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