World Hindi Day- January 10th

January 10, 2024

World Hindi Day, also called the Vishwa Hindi Diwas, is observed on January 10.
It is marked to promote the language.
On this day in 1949, Hindi was spoken for the first time at the United Nations General Assembly.
With around 600 million speakers globally, Hindi is one of the most widely spoken languages across the world.
Vishwa Hindi Diwas was marked for the first time on January 10, 2006, on the instructions of the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
In 1950, Hindi was declared the official language of the Union of India.
It is designated as Hindi in Devanagari script in Article 343 of the Constitution of India.