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HINDI DIWAS: Which state of the country first adopted Hindi, know some interesting facts related to Hindi

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World Hindi Diwas 2025

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WORLD HINDI DAY: To increase the importance of Hindi all over the world, every year 10 January is celebrated as World Hindi Day. On January 10, 2006, former Prime Minister of the country Manmohan Singh celebrated World Hindi Day for the first time. Since then, World Hindi Day is celebrated every year on 10 January. This time the theme of World Hindi Day has been kept as ‘Global voice of unity and cultural pride’. Every year 14th September is celebrated as National Hindi Day.

Bihar gave official language status

Bihar was the first to give the status of official language to Hindi. Bihar replaced Urdu with Hindi and gave it the status of official language. In this way Bihar became the first state in the country to adopt Hindi. After Bihar, states like Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh etc. also took this step.

Third most spoken language in the world

Hindi is at third place among the 20 most spoken languages ​​of the world. In the 22nd edition of the World Language Database, Ethnologue, it has been reported that Hindi ranks third among more than 20 spoken languages ​​around the world. The most spoken language around the world is English and China’s Mandarin language is at second place.

simple, clear and intuitive

Hindi is considered to be the most simple, clear and intuitive language in the world. Everything from grammar to pronunciation is clear in this language. This is the reason why learning Hindi is considered quite easy as compared to other languages.

Some interesting facts related to Hindi

  1. Hindi is derived from the Persian word Hindu which means land of sacred rivers. There is also a belief that due to the civilization that existed near the Indus River, the people of that area came to be called Hindu and their language was called Hindi.

  2. In the year 2017, Oxford Dictionary for the first time included Hindi words like bada din, bachcha, achcha, surya namaskar,

  3. English took words like yoga, avatar, loot, jungle, karma, shampoo, thug, guru etc. from Hindi.

  4. Hindi is also spoken in countries like Nepal, America, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Germany, Britain, UAE, South Africa, Uganda, Suriname, Mauritius, Trinidad, Suriname.

  5. Hindi has got the status of official language in Fiji. The Hindi here is a mixture of Awadhi, Bhojpuri and other dialects. It is called Fijian Hindi.

  6. The biggest feature of Hindi is that the language binds all communities and cultures together. By communicating in Hindi we can easily express our culture, traditions and values.

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