Bhopal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today stressed on the need for concerted efforts to promote and enrich Hindi and said that the language, along with English and Chinese, "will be influential in the digital world in the coming days".

Stating that, "if we forget Hindi, it will be a loss to the country", Modi also called for steps to be taken to preserve endangered languages as he pointed at concerns among language scholars that 90 per cent of the 6,000 languages world-over would faced the risk of becoming relics from the past.