Producer: Priyanka Das Editor: Aparna Singh
As per the 2011 Language Census, released in 2018, Hindi is the only scheduled language with an increase in general speaking population. It showed an increase of almost 6%.
As per the 2011 language Census, about 43.63% of Indians listed Hindi as their mother tongue.
Hindi was the 3rd most spoken language in the world in 2019, just behind English and Mandarin.
Hindi has 615 million speakers around the world.
On September 14, 1949, the Government of India adopted Hindi as the official language.
Hindi is widely spoken in Nepal, Fiji, Mauritius, Suriname, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago.
As per the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Hindi is taught as a subject in 176 universities worldwide.
The first published Hindi books are believed to be Heera Lal’s treatise on Ain E Akbari, called Ain e Akbari ki Bhasha Vachanika, and Rewa Maharaja’s treatise on Kabir. Both books were published in 1795.
The alphabetical table of Hindi in Devnagri script is called ‘Varnamala’.
Alam Ara, released on March 14, 1931, is considered to be the first Hindi talking movie.