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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 - June 30, 2017

( Number of Internet Users by Language )
 TOP TEN LANGUAGES World Population Internet Users Internet Internet Internet Users
IN THE INTERNET for this Language by Language Penetration Users Growth % of World Total
(2017 Estimate) (% Population) (2000 - 2017) (Participation)
English 1,434,937,438 984,703,501 68.6 % 599.6 % 25.3 %
Chinese 1,425,430,865 770,797,306 54.1 % 2,286.1 % 19.8 %
Spanish 510,380,423 312,069,111 61.1 % 1,616.4 % 8.0 %
Arabic 421,345,425 184,631,496 43.8 % 7,247.3 % 4.8 %
Portuguese 281,603,515 158,399,082 56.2 % 1,990.8 % 4.1 %
Indonesian / Malaysian 295,108,771 157,580,091 53.4 % 2,650.1 % 4.1 %
Japanese 126,045,211 118,453,595 94.0 % 151.6 % 3.0 %
Russian 143,375,006 109,552,842 76.4 % 3,434.0 % 2.8 %
French 405,644,599 108,014,564 26.6 % 800.2 % 2.8 %
German 94,943,848 84,700,419 89.2 % 207.8 % 2.2 %
TOP 10 LANGUAGES 5,138,815,101 2,988,902,008 58.2 % 907.2 % 76.9 %
Rest of the Languages 2,380,213,869 896,665,611 37.7 % 1,296.1 % 23.1 %
WORLD TOTAL 7,519,028,970 3,885,567,619 51.7 % 976.4 % 100.0 %
NOTES: (1) Top Ten Languages Internet Stats were updated in June 30 2017. (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) Population estimates are based mainly on figures from the United Nations Population Division and
local official sources. (5) For definitions, methodology and navigation help, please see the Site Surfing Guide. (6) These statistics
may be cited, stating the source and establishing an active link back to Internet World Stats. Copyright 2017, Miniwatts
Marketing Group. All rights reserved worldwide.

Examples for the interpretation of the data:

(1) - The 312,069,111 Spanish speaking people using the Internet, correspond to 8.0 % of all the users.
(2) - Out of the estimated 94,943,848 persons in the world that speak German, 89.2 % use the Internet.
(3) - The number of Japanese Speaking Internet Users has grown 151.6 % in the last seventeen years.

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, Prof. 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 and where children
are given the chance to use a computer to surf the Web).

Another very interesting fact is that the six official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese,
English, French, Russian and Spanish) are all included in the above Top Ten Internet languages table.

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Other Web Sites with Statistics and

Information on Language Sites in the Internet
The Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium enables people around the
world to use computers in any language.

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 worlds 6,909 known living languages.

Modern Language Association (USA)

The MLA Language Map and its Data Center provide
information about foreign languages studied in the
United States and related subjects.

Wikipedia - French Language Information

Selected French Language country directory and
geographic distribution information.

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.

Internet Linguistic Diversity (pdf)

A UNESCO study, featuring Twelve Years of
Measuring Linguistic Diversity in the Internet.
A free 65 page pdf document.

The Digital Language Divide

How does the language you speak shape your
experience of the Internet. An article from The
Guardian sponsored by the British Academy.

World Linguistic Diversity (video)

Yann Martel speaks about languages, similarities and
differences.

Language Translation Tools

For those of you wishing to understand the meaning of

web sites of the Internet written in other languages, the
following free language translators will do the job:
Free Online Translation Tools

More Language Translation Tools

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

One Look Dictionary

A search engine for words and phrases: If you
have a word for 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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