{"id":12413,"date":"2025-09-13T08:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/10-facts-you-may-not-know-about-the-language\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:08:21","slug":"10-facts-you-may-not-know-about-the-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/10-facts-you-may-not-know-about-the-language\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Facts You May Not Know About The Language"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hindi Diwas is marked annually on September 14 in India. It is more than just a date; it highlights India\u2019s linguistic diversity and cultural richness while emphasising the importance of Hindi. To mark the occasion, here are some interesting facts to know. (Image: AI-Generated)<\/p>\n

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As per the data shared by Ethnologue in 2024, Hindi is the 3rd most spoken language in the world, just behind English and Mandarin. (Image: Instagram)<\/p>\n

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Hindi has more than 615 million speakers around the world. (Image: Canva)<\/p>\n

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The Government of India adopted Hindi as the official language on September 14, 1949. (Image: X)<\/p>\n

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Way back in 1977, Atal Bihari Vajpayee proudly showed respect for the Hindi Language and presented a speech in the Hindi language to the United Nations. (Image: X)<\/p>\n

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The word Hindi is derived from the Persian word \u2018Hind\u2019. It means the land of the Indus River. (Image: Canva)<\/p>\n

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Nepal, Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago are some countries where Hindi is widely spoken. (Image: Canva)<\/p>\n

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Hindi is taught as a subject in 176 universities worldwide, as per the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. (Image: Facebook)<\/p>\n

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The first Hindi books, Heera Lal\u2019s treatise on Ain E Akbari, called Ain e Akbari ki Bhasha Vachanika, and Rewa Maharaja\u2019s treatise on Kabir, are believed to have been published in 1795. (Image: Canva)<\/p>\n

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Alam Ara is considered to be the first Hindi talking movie, which was released on March 14, 1931. (Image: IMDb)<\/p>\n

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Amir Khusro, a renowned poet, was the first writer who composed and released the first poem in Hindi. (Image: Instagram)<\/p>\n

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Hindi Diwas is marked annually on September 14 in India. It is more than just a date; it highlights India\u2019s linguistic diversity and cultural richness while emphasising the importance of Hindi. To mark the occasion, here are some interesting facts to know. (Image: AI-Generated) As per the data shared by Ethnologue in 2024, Hindi is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}