Languages online

In the previous news item we looked at what languages are popular in the real life. But what happens in the virtual world? What languages tend to dominate the scene on the Internet? Are there many differences?

Here are the ten top languages according to their popularity on the Internet:

10. Korean
9. Russian
8. French
7. Arabic
6. German
5. Portuguese
4. Japanese
3. Spanish
2. Chinese
1. English

Although English came second in our most popular world languages chart, it is still dominates virtual world with over 565,000,000 Internet users according to the 2014 research although it must be noted that it is becoming more and more difficult with an increasing number of people being bilingual or even multilingual.