World Hindi Day (विश्व हिन्दी दिवस)
It is celebrated every year (on January 10th) to promote the use of Hindi Language around the world.
It is also the day when Hindi was spoken for the first time in UNGA (in 1949).
It was on this day in 1975 that the first World Hindi Conference was held in Nagpur.
It is different from National Hindi Day which is celebrated every year on September 14 to mark adaptation of Hindi (written in Devanagari script) as official language by Constituent Assembly on September 14, 1949.
The day was first celebrated in 2006 by the Indian government to mark the adoption of Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, as one of the official languages of India, along with English, by the Constituent Assembly on January 14th, 1950.
With about 600 million speakers globally, Hindi is the third most widely spoken language in the world after Mandarin Chinese and English.
