The latest data from Internet World Stats reveals that Italian has been knocked out of the Top 10 internet languages and replaced with Korean. English remains the most popular language of the Internet at 29% of all web content, with Chinese firmly in second place at 20%. But English has fallen significantly from its position in 2000, when it accounted for 68% of all internet users. Spanish, Chinese and Arabic continue to grow at a faster rate than English.
The remaining 8 top languages are all below 10%, with Arabic and Russian seeing the greatest growth since 2000. Perhaps predictably, as a percentage of language speakers who use the internet, Japan has the highest penetration wish a massive 75% of Japanese speakers accessing the web. German comes a close second with 68%, but the rest of the world has some way to go to catch up.
One thing for certain is that the growth of other languages is set to continue and will no doubt soon overtake English as the prominent language of the World Wide Web.
With the growth of these other internet languages and the weakness of US dollar and UK sterling, never has the opportunity to profit in non-English speaking markets been so great.
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Peter says:
posted on 2009-11-03 01:52:04
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
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