SlogansHindi Diwas and mother tongue slogans
Hindi Diwas is observed on 14 September, the day in 1949 when the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi in the Devanagari script as an official language of the Union. International Mother Language Day is on 21 February. These slogans celebrate one's own language without running down any other.
हिन्दी
हिन्दी हमारी पहचान, हिन्दी हमारा अभिमान।
अपनी भाषा, अपना गौरव।
हिन्दी में बोलें, दिल से बोलें।
भाषाएँ सीखो सारी, पर अपनी भाषा रहे प्यारी।
हिन्दी सिर्फ़ भाषा नहीं, भावों की धारा है।
हिन्दी पढ़ें, हिन्दी लिखें, हिन्दी पर गर्व करें।
जो अपनी भाषा में सोचता है, वह साफ़ सोचता है।
हर भाषा का सम्मान, यही भारत की शान।
देवनागरी के अक्षर, संस्कृति के हस्ताक्षर।
माँ की लोरी जिस भाषा में, वही भाषा सबसे प्यारी।
हिंदी में सोचो, हिंदी में लिखो, गर्व से बोलो।
हर भाषा का सम्मान करो, अपनी भाषा से प्यार करो।
आज एक चिट्ठी हिंदी में लिखो।
हिंदी सीखो, हिंदी सिखाओ, मिलकर इसको आगे बढ़ाओ।
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
ਮਾਂ ਬੋਲੀ ਨੂੰ ਨਾ ਭੁੱਲੋ, ਇਹੀ ਸਾਡੀ ਪਛਾਣ ਹੈ।
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਬੋਲੋ, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਪੜ੍ਹੋ, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਲਿਖੋ।
ਆਪਣੀ ਬੋਲੀ, ਆਪਣਾ ਮਾਣ।
ਮਾਂ ਬੋਲੀ ਨੂੰ ਨਾ ਭੁੱਲ ਜਾਇਓ, ਬੱਚਿਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸਿਖਾਇਓ।
ਜਿਹੜੀ ਬੋਲੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਮਾਂ ਨੇ ਲੋਰੀ ਦਿੱਤੀ, ਉਹੀ ਸਭ ਤੋਂ ਮਿੱਠੀ।
ਹਰ ਬੋਲੀ ਦਾ ਸਤਿਕਾਰ ਕਰੋ, ਆਪਣੀ ਬੋਲੀ ਨਾਲ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰੋ।
English
Learn many languages. Keep your own.
Your mother tongue is your first home.
A language lives when children speak it.
Speak it at home, and it will never be lost.
Speak many languages. Never forget the first.
Teach your child the lullaby you were sung.
Write one letter in your mother tongue today.
In common use (not written by us)
माँ, मातृभूमि और मातृभाषा का कोई विकल्प नहीं।
ਮਾਂ ਬੋਲੀ ਮਾਂ ਵਰਗੀ ਹੁੰਦੀ ਹੈ।
Nothing matches. Try a shorter word, or choose All.
Where these slogans are used
Hindi Diwas and Hindi Pakhwada programmes in schools, banks and government offices, Mother Language Day events, library displays, and slogan and poster competitions. In offices, they are often displayed on the notice board for the whole fortnight.
Write your own
A language is loved for what it holds: lullabies, jokes, the way your grandmother scolds, the poems you learnt by heart. Write about that, and the slogan will be warm. Slogans that order people to use a language, or that run down English or any other tongue, win nobody over. India has many mother tongues, and a good Hindi Diwas slogan honours Hindi while respecting them all.
- Hindi pairs: हिंदी and बिंदी, भाषा and आशा, बोली and झोली, मान and पहचान, अपनाओ and बढ़ाओ.
- Punjabi pairs: ਬੋਲੀ and ਝੋਲੀ, ਮਾਂ ਬੋਲੀ and ਅਣਮੋਲੀ, ਮਾਣ and ਪਛਾਣ.
Getting the spelling right
On this day more than any other, a spelling mistake on the chart is noticed. Check every matra, the chandrabindu and the nukta. Both हिंदी and हिन्दी are accepted spellings. Use one of them throughout the poster. Ask your Hindi teacher to read the chart before you ink it.
Ideas for the fortnight
- A "word of the day" board with one beautiful Hindi word and its meaning.
- A period where students recite a poem or tell a joke in their own mother tongue, whatever it is.
- Letters written by hand in Hindi to grandparents.
What to avoid
- Calling any language superior or inferior.
- Mocking anyone's accent or the Hindi of people from other states.
Using these slogans
- A language slogan should invite, not order. "Come, read with us" wins more readers than "you must".