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INTERNET WORLD USERS BY LANGUAGE

Top 10 Languages
Internet World Stats presents its latest estimates for Internet Users by Language
Because of the importance of this research, and due to the lack of other sources, Internet
World Stats publishes several tables and charts featuring analysis and details here below
for the top ten languages and also for the detailed world languages in use by country.

Top Ten Languages Used in the Web

( Number of Internet Users by Language )
Internet Growth World Population
TOP TEN LANGUAGES Internet Users Internet Users
Penetration in Internet
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IN THE INTERNET by Language of Total
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English 536,564,837 42.0 % 281.2 % 27.3 % 1,277,528,133
Chinese 444,948,013 32.6 % 1,277.4 % 22.6 % 1,365,524,982
Spanish 153,309,074 36.5 % 743.2 % 7.8 % 420,469,703
Japanese 99,143,700 78.2 % 110.6 % 5.0 % 126,804,433
Portuguese 82,548,200 33.0 % 989.6 % 4.2 % 250,372,925
German 75,158,584 78.6 % 173.1 % 3.8 % 95,637,049
Arabic 65,365,400 18.8 % 2,501.2 % 3.3 % 347,002,991
French 59,779,525 17.2 % 398.2 % 3.0 % 347,932,305
Russian 59,700,000 42.8 % 1,825.8 % 3.0 % 139,390,205
Korean 39,440,000 55.2 % 107.1 % 2.0 % 71,393,343
TOP 10 LANGUAGES 1,615,957,333 36.4 % 421.2 % 82.2 % 4,442,056,069
Rest of the Languages 350,557,483 14.6 % 588.5 % 17.8 % 2,403,553,891
WORLD TOTAL 1,966,514,816 28.7 % 444.8 % 100.0 % 6,845,609,960
(*) NOTES: (1) Top Ten Languages Internet Stats were updated for June 30 2010. (2) Internet Penetration is the ratio between the
sum of Internet users speaking a language and the total population estimate that speaks that specific language. (3) The most
recent Internet usage information comes from data published by Nielsen Online, International Telecommunications Union, GfK,
and other reliable sources. (4) World population information comes from the U.S. Census Bureau . (5) For definitions and
navigation help in several languages, see the Site Surfing Guide. (6) Stats may be cited, stating the source and establishing an
active link back to Internet World Stats. Copyright © 2010, Miniwatts Marketing Group. All rights reserved worldwide.

Examples for interpretation of the data:

- There are 99,143,700 Japanese speaking people using the Internet, this represents 5.0 % of all the Internet users in the world.
- Out of the estimated 126,804,433 population of the world that speaks Japanese, 78.2 % use the Internet.
- The number of Japanese Speaking Internet Users has grown 110.6 % in the last ten years (2000-2010).

Tallying the number of speakers of the world's languages is an increasingly complex task, particularly with the
push in many countries to teach English in their public schools. How many people can actually use the global
language? David Graddol estimated a total of 750 million L1 (first or native language) plus L2 (second or nth
language) speakers of English in his Future of English Report (pdf document) for the British Council. One of
our subscribers, Martin Schell, has reviewed Prof. Braj Kachru's new book Asian Englishes which claims that
India and China combined have over half a billion "users" of English.

Indeed, many people are bilingual or multilingual, but here we assign only one language per person in order
to have all the language totals add up to the total world population (zero-sum approach). No adjustments have
been made for infants or illiteracy in the Internet penetration rate calculations. Very few countries have 100%
literacy. Australia, Denmark, Finland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Norway are six countries to mention.
Regarding children, most are early Internet adopters (when they are given the chance to surf).

Internet Usage in the World Reports

● Global e-Commerce - Trends and Statistics ● Digital Economy - e-Health

● Internet Television - IPTV ● Digital Economy - e-Education and e-Science

● Digital Media - Online Video ● Digital Economy - Gaming and Virtual Worlds

● Digital Economy - e-Government ● Digital Economy and Entertainment Services

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Find the answer in these pages.

List of Official Languages

Wikiverse list of the official languages of sovereign
countries.

La Francophonie
Find the French speaking states in the world.

Ethnologue
An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all
of the world’s 6,909 known living languages.

Modern Language Association (USA)

The MLA Language Map and its Data Center provide
information about more than 47,000,000 people in the
United States who speak languages other than English at
home.

Verbivore - English Language Links

Selected English Language directory by Richard Lederer.
Links to grammar, etymology, linguistics et al.

Wiktionary
The wikipedia dictionary, urban culture reference, slang
words and phrases listed in alphabetical order.

Urban Dictionary - American English

Searchable American slang dictionary, urban culture
reference, slang words and phrases listed in alphabetical
order.

Language Translation Tools

For those of you wishing to understand the meaning of web

sites of the Internet written in other languages, the following
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Free Online Translation Tools

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Language-Learning Resources and useful links for many
languages are available here at the WWW Virtual Library.

One Look Dictionary

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which you'd like a definition or translation, OneLook will
quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or
translate that word. No word is too obscure: More than 6
million words in more than 979 online dictionaries are indexed
by the OneLook® search engine.

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