Day of the Georgian Language is observed in Georgia every April 14, commemorating the demonstrations against changes to the constitutional status of languages in the Georgian SSR that occurred in 1978. This event was sparked by the adoption of a new Soviet Constitution in 1977, which proposed to diminish the status of the Georgian language by granting equal official status to Russian. The protests peaked on April 14, 1978, when thousands of university students and intellectuals took to the streets of Tbilisi, ultimately leading to the abandonment of the proposed constitutional amendments. Since 1990, this date has been celebrated as Day of the Georgian Language, although it is not an official holiday. The celebration honors the Georgian language, which belongs to the Kartvelian language family and features its own unique writing system.