One of the interesting ways to study global languages development is to analyse their use on the internet. Web site Internetworldstats.com collects information from various sources to create a list of languages used most in the internet according to the number of their users.
- English (27.3%)
- Chinese (22.6%)
- Spanish (7.8%)
- Japanese (5.3%)
- Portuguese (4.3%)
- German (4.0%)
- Arabic (3.3%)
- French (3.2%)
- Russian (2.5%)
- Korean (2.1%)
This list is based on the internet navigation by country, and it seems that it adds a large piece of the cake to the English users because many people use English as a second language only, but use it on the internet for search purposes.
