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Category : Important Days
Published on: September 14 2021
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· Today Hindi Divas is being celebrated all over the country.
· On this day in 1949, the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi written in Devanagari script as the official language of the country.
· Today, Hindi is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and the first language of over 520 million people.
Important facts
About Hindi Diwas
v This day was chosen because in the year 1949, on this day on September 14, the Constituent Assembly accepted Hindi as the official language. After this, to remember this historic day, the country's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru decided to celebrate 14 September as Hindi Diwas.
v The special thing about Hindi is that the way a word is pronounced in it, it is written in the same way.
v Hindi is one of the official languages of India and is commonly used by the people of North India. Apart from this, Hindi is also spoken in countries like Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Nepal.
v Fiji is an island country located in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. You will be surprised to know but Hindi has been given the status of official language in Fiji. It is also called Fijian Hindi or Fijian Hindustani.
v It is also important to know that Hindi Day is celebrated on 14 September but World Hindi Day is celebrated on 10 January.
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