Languages used on the Internet

Slightly over half of the homepages of the most visited websites on the World Wide Web are in English, with varying amounts of information available in many other languages.[1][2] Other top languages are Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Persian, French, German and Japanese.[1][3]

Of the more than 7,000 existing languages, only a few hundred are recognized as being in use for Web pages on the World Wide Web.[4]

  1. ^ Pimienta, Daniel; Prado, Daniel; Blanco, Álvaro (2009). "Twelve years of measuring linguistic diversity in the Internet: balance and perspectives". United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  2. ^ Language Online
  3. ^ "What continents have the most indigenous languages?". Ethnologue. 3 May 2019. Archived from the original on 27 December 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2019.