Most prominent language on the Internet (29)

1 Name: Einhander!anzteOw4H6 : 2006-07-19 04:29 ID:5HRlNgZo

Behind English, I mean.

My bet's on Japanese. Any idea how one would measure this?

12 Name: unknown : 2006-08-17 09:29 ID:RUTz2NJH

wow spanish it pretty high up there,
but no suprise with chinese there.

13 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2006-08-20 13:21 ID:Qkv+LyOD

>>10-11
i don't mean to sound racist, but if you somehow incorporated starcraft into those statistics koreans would dominate amazingly

14 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2006-08-20 14:00 ID:Heaven

>>13
according to that site, the statistics are based on the "total number of people online", which i would think means the number of people who access to the internet, not just the number of people who access one small part of it.

this is interesting, too:

English	68.4%
Japanese 5.9%
German 5.8%
Chinese 3.9%
French 3.0%
Spanish 2.4%
Russian 1.9%
Italian 1.6%
Portuguese 1.4%
Korean 1.3%
Other 4.6%

15 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-02-07 13:10 ID:10WDiOLA

its german actually

16 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-02-07 15:39 ID:xFzQvmXb

Three Huzzahs for the Anglo-sphere!!

17 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-02-09 01:33 ID:rj1zAGDt

>>16 nah

18 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-02-24 14:31 ID:QcxeQdFP

>>5
And >>1 was oh-so-wrong. lolz

So what was that based on?

19 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-03-17 23:04 ID:ffEEveGl

russian LOL that's higher up than korean. i bet that's cuz of piracy related stuff. ^^

20 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-03-19 06:59 ID:e2rlqm7f

So far as I know, there are lots of Germans in technical sites. Japanese and Chinese have their own internet. spanish .. i donnu

21 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-05-07 08:37 ID:cqIuQi09

As far as blogs go, Japanese beats English according to Technorati.
http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0013.gif
http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html

22 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-05-08 16:21 ID:J9hw+5mu

>>19

And pronz.

23 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-05-08 23:33 ID:Heaven

>>21
Well, yeah. At least every 1 in 2 Japanese websites is a blog or is made up largely of a blog. I dare anybody to argue these statistics.

24 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-05-09 22:45 ID:1GjXbVvk

German is awesome. It has words like Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsmützenschirmfarbpfützenreinigungspersonalagenturchefsbürotürklinkenpoliturfabrikantenkonferenzsaalhelferstochter.

25 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-05-10 08:50 ID:aQA3VZCh

>>24
translation plz

26 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-05-10 20:19 ID:1GjXbVvk

>>25
Let's see ... Danube steamship company captain's cap shield (for lack of a better word, the part in front that keeps the sun out of your eyes) dye puddle clean-up personnel agency chief's office doorknob polish manufacturers' conference room usher's daughter.

27 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-05-10 20:23 ID:aQA3VZCh

>>26
Scary.

28 Name: Tsuminaoshi : 2007-05-11 04:10 ID:OZbDAUNk

The only real way to gauge that would be based on net usage per capita by country...

Who wants to get started on that statistic?

29 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2007-10-18 16:20 ID:eagvOz7b

english chinese spanish japanese are also most used language if i wasn't wrong

but foruming is most by japanese i believe thanks to many otakus in japan and the existance of 2ch

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