World Hindi Day 2023: Date, significance, key facts, here's all you need to know

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Every year on January 10, World Hindi Day is celebrated all over the world. It is celebrated to mark the anniversary of the first World Hindi Conference, which was first organized by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in Nagpur in 1975.

In the year 2006, the then Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh had announced to celebrate Vishwa Hindi Diwas on 10 January every year. Since then, World Hindi Day is celebrated on 10 January.

The first World Hindi Conference was inaugurated on January 10, 1975. It was held from 10 to 12 January in 1975 in Nagpur. Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, then Prime Minister of Mauritius had also attended the conference as the chief guest. Over a 100 delegates from about 30 countries had participated in the conference then.

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According to the 2011 census, the number of Hindi speakers in India is 43.63 percent, which is the highest among all the languages of the country. Hindi is the first language of around 430 million people around the world. Hindi is said to be a descendant of Sanskrit language. The words and grammar in Hindi follow that of the ancient language.

Apart from being spoken in India, the language is also spoken in many parts of the world including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Nepal, Fiji, Mauritius, etc. Hindi and Nepalese share the same script which is Devanagari. Hindi has been given the status of the national language of India.