World Hindi Day, 2022

About World Hindi Day-

• The day is observed to commemorate the  anniversary of the first World Hindi Conference held in Nagpur on January 10, 1975. 
• The conference was inaugurated by the then Prime minister Indira Gandhi.
• The aim of the conference was to promote the Hindi language worldwide.
• The day is observed in India from the year 2003. 
• The Ministry of External Affairs began the tradition of celebrating World Hindi Day in other nations in 2006 with an aim to promote this language across the world.

Note: The National Hindi Diwas is celebrated on September 14.

About Hindi language-

• The word Hindi originated from the Persian word Hind, meaning the land of the Indus River.
• Literary Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, has been strongly influenced by Sanskrit. 
• Its standard form is based on the Khari Boli dialect, found to the north and east of Delhi.
• The language has other variants as well, like Awadhi, Braj and Khadi Boli.
• It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India. 
• However, India has two official languages: English and Hindi.
• In 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India had recognised and adopted Hindi,  an Indo-Aryan language written in the Devanagari script as the official language of the country. 
• According to the 2011 census, in India, there are roughly about 43.6 percent speakers, who identify Hindi as their mother tongue.
• Apart from India, the language is also spoken in Nepal, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Fiji, and Mauritius. 
• As a linguistic variety, Hindi is the fourth most-spoken first language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish and English.