January 10 is celebrated annually as World Hindi Day to spread awareness about the significance of Hindi as an international language across the world and the day is especially observed by Indian embassies abroad.

• After English and Mandarin Chinese, Hindi is the most spoken language globally, which is spoken by 600 million people across the world.
• This day helps us to recognise the importance of Hindi speakers and the issues addressed in the language. 
• According to the Census of India of 2001, our country has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages but Hindi in Devanagari script is the official language of the central government in India and also of the Union, as per the Article 343 of the Constitution of India.