"Joe Clark (by way of Martin Duerst )" wrote:
>
> Hello. I am writinga book on Web accessibility
> <http://joeclark.org/book/> and am trying to find authoritative
> statistics on the frequency of language use on Websites. Everyone
> knows English leads by a country kilometre,
depending on your metric. 'Most popular language', yes; 'Language used by
most web users', no; 'language used by most websites', not sure.
> but what are the next 19 languages used, in order?
>
> Is there such a thing as a reliable source of such information
> online?
Here is a thought-provoking one (OK, its an advert I saw in an airport but
anyway it makes an interesting point). It suggests that by 2007, the
predominant language used on the web will be Chinese.
--
Chris
