 The Internet is a worldwide "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked web pages and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW). People from the entire world have access to Internet .
So, what languages are the most often used in Internet?
Every day there appear more and more users of Internet worlwide services. However, estimating the number of speakers of the world's languages is difficult because many people are bilingual or multilingual and can use several languages to surf the Internet (e.g. the native language and English or German etc.). For instance, people who use English on the Internet are not limited to English-speaking countries but form a community of users world-wide.
Top ten Internet languages
As the Internet World Statistics says, English is a dominant language of the Internet. The top ten languages on the Internet, are listed below.
These languages are used in 81.8% of all Internet use. English accountes almost 30% of Internet users, with Chinese a distant runner-up.
Further statistics that include penetration, the ratio of Internet users to total number of speakers of the language, as well as growth are given in the table below. German has the highest penetration, while Arabic has experienced the greatest growth.
| Languages | % of all Internet Users | Penetration* | User Growth
( 2000 - 2007) | | English | 29.9% | 28.6 % | 138.5 % | | Chinese | 14% | 11.3% | 374.6% | | Spanish | 8.0% | 17.0% | 253.0% | | Japanese | 7.9% | 67.1% | 83.3% | | German | 5.4% | 61.3% | 113.2% | | French | 5.0% | 14.1% | 349.0% | | Portuguese | 3.1% | 14.6% | 349.6% | | Korean | 3.1% | 45.3% | 78.0% | | Italian | 2.8% | 51.7% | 133.1% | | Arabic | 2.6% | 8.4% | 930.2% | | Rest of world languages | 18.2% | 8.8% | 431.9% |
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