As of February 2025, English was the most popular language for web content, with over 49.4 percent of websites using it. Spanish ranked second, with six percent of web content, while the content in the German language followed, with 5.6 percent. English as the leading online language United States and India, the countries with the most internet users after China, are also the world's biggest English-speaking markets. The internet user base in both countries combined, as of January 2023, was over a billion individuals. This has led to most of the online information being created in English. Consequently, even those who are not native speakers may use it for convenience. Global internet usage by regions As of October 2024, the number of internet users worldwide was 5.52 billion. In the same period, Northern Europe and North America were leading in terms of internet penetration rates worldwide, with around 97 percent of its populations accessing the internet.

According to a 2023 survey, ** percent of internet users in urban India preferred using the internet in English. Meanwhile, ** percent of users accessed the internet in Indian languages, with Hindi being the most preferred language among them. Over *** million internet users reside in the urban areas of India.

Canadian Internet use survey, Internet use, by language used to search for information, for Canada in 2005. (Terminated)

The statistic shows distribution of programming languages used by Internet of Things developers, according to a survey conducted in 2016. At that time, **** percent of respondents indicated that they were using Node.js when developing Internet of Things solutions.

Reliable and updated indicators of the presence of languages in the Internet are required to drive efficiently policies for languages, to forecast e-commerce market or to support further researches on the field of digital support of languages. This article presents a complete description of the methodological elements involved in the production of an unprecedented set of indicators of the presence in the Internet of the 329 languages with more than 1 million L1 speakers. A special emphasis is given to the treatment of the comprehensive set of biases involved in the process, either from the method or the various sources used in the modeling process. The biases related to other sources providing similar data are also discussed, and in particular, it is shown how the lack of consideration of the high level of multilingualism of the Web leads to a huge overestimation of the presence of English. The detailed list of sources is presented in the various annexes. For the first time in the history of the Internet, the production of indicators about virtual presence of a large set of languages could allow progress in the fields of economy of languages, cyber-geography of languages and language policies for multilingualism.

This statistic displays the number of Indian and English language internet users across India from 2011 to 2021. In 2016, the number of English internet users amounted to about *** million and was projected to increase to *** million in 2021. For Indian language users, this number was about *** million users in 2016, and was projected to reach *** million in 2021.

The statistical operation Survey on the Information Society-ESI- Companies, provides regular information on the implementation of New Information and Communication Technology -ICT- in the companies of the Basque Country. Specifically, it records and describes the level of use of the Internet in the different establishments: the systems of Internet access, activities carried out via the Internet, as well as the availability of the website and its main characteristics. It also measures the implementation of E-commerce purchases and sales in economic activity and the means used to carry it out.

This Dataset, in 29 files of xlsx format, contains the data of all metrics and accumulated information as they are described in the methodology, results and discussion section of the research article "Exploring the Dominance of the English Language on the Websites of EU Countries".

Context:

How frequently a word occurs in a language is an important piece of information for natural language processing and linguists. In natural language processing, very frequent words tend to be less informative than less frequent one and are often removed during preprocessing. Human language users are also sensitive to word frequency. How often a word is used affects language processing in humans. For example, very frequent words are read and understood more quickly and can be understood more easily in background noise.

Content:

This dataset contains the counts of the 333,333 most commonly-used single words on the English language web, as derived from the Google Web Trillion Word Corpus.

Acknowledgements:

Data files were derived from the Google Web Trillion Word Corpus (as described by Thorsten Brants and Alex Franz, and distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium) by Peter Norvig. You can find more information on these files and the code used to generate them here.

The code used to generate this dataset is distributed under the MIT License.

Inspiration:

• Can you tag the part of speech of these words? Which parts of speech are most frequent? Is this similar to other languages, like Japanese?
• What differences are there between the very frequent words in this dataset, and the the frequent words in other corpora, such as the Brown Corpus or the TIMIT corpus? What might these differences tell us about how language is used?

Dataset

This dataset was created by Mohammad Shahebaz

Contents

It contains the following files:

German Legal monolingual corpus from the contensts of the https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ web site

This dataset has been created within the framework of the European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) Connecting Europe Facility - Automated Translation (CEF.AT) actions SMART 2014/1074 and SMART 2015/1091. For further information on the project: http://lr-coordination.eu.

This dataset is about books. It has 4 rows and is filtered where the book subjects is Language and languages-Web-based instruction. It features 9 columns including author, publication date, language, and book publisher.

According to the source, 9,154 language errors were published each day on the internet in Poland in 2023. Over 38 percent of mistakes were found on Facebook, 20.21 percent on Twitter.

The statistical operation Information Society Survey-ESI-Familias, provides periodic information on the implementation of the new Information and Communication Technologies -ICT- in the population of the Basque Country. In particular, it computes and describes the ICT equipment of the population both in the home and in the study center or in the workplace, and measures the level of use that is made of them, especially those related to the Internet. It allows us to compare the level of implementation of these ICT technologies in Basque society in relation to other countries in its environment. The statistical operation Information Society Survey-ESI-Familias, provides periodic information on the implementation of the new Information and Communication Technologies -ICT- in the population of the Basque Country. In particular, it computes and describes the ICT equipment of the population both in the home and in the study center or in the workplace, and measures the level of use that is made of them, especially those related to the Internet. It allows us to compare the level of implementation of these ICT technologies in Basque society in relation to other countries in its environment. The statistical operation Information Society Survey-ESI-Familias, provides periodic information on the implementation of the new Information and Communication Technologies -ICT- in the population of the Basque Country. In particular, it computes and describes the ICT equipment of the population both in the home and in the study center or in the workplace, and measures the level of use that is made of them, especially those related to the Internet. It allows us to compare the level of implementation of these ICT technologies in Basque society in relation to other countries in its environment.

Author: Lisa SandersGrade/Audience: high school, ap human geographyResource type: activitySubject topic(s): culture, human geographyRegion: worldStandards: APHG CED Unit 3Objectives: See the APHG CED Unit 3 for specific objectives covered in this activity. Summary: This webquest gives students links to follow to learn about the concepts associated with langugage in AP Human Geography. Can be adapted for World Geography classes.

In 2025, there were around 1.53 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.18 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time of survey. Hindi and Spanish accounted for the third and fourth most widespread languages that year. Languages in the United States The United States does not have an official language, but the country uses English, specifically American English, for legislation, regulation, and other official pronouncements. The United States is a land of immigration, and the languages spoken in the United States vary as a result of the multicultural population. The second most common language spoken in the United States is Spanish or Spanish Creole, which over than 43 million people spoke at home in 2023. There were also 3.5 million Chinese speakers (including both Mandarin and Cantonese),1.8 million Tagalog speakers, and 1.57 million Vietnamese speakers counted in the United States that year. Different languages at home The percentage of people in the United States speaking a language other than English at home varies from state to state. The state with the highest percentage of population speaking a language other than English is California. About 45 percent of its population was speaking a language other than English at home in 2023.

The statistical operation Survey on the Information Society-ESI-Families, provides regular information on the implementation of New Information and Communication Technology -ICT- among the population of the Basque Country. Specifically, it records and describes ICT equipment of the population both in the home and the place of study or in the workplace and measures the level of use made of it, especially as related to the Internet. It lets us compare the level of implementation of these ICT technologies In Basque society in relation to other surrounding communities.

This dataset tracks annual reading and language arts proficiency from 2010 to 2022 for Internet Academy vs. Washington and Federal Way School District

This Flash Eurobarometer studied how Europeans use different languages online. While 90% of European internet users prefer to surf the internet in their own language, 55% at least occasionally use a language other than their own when online according to a pan-EU Eurobarometer survey released today. However, 44% feel they are missing interesting information because web pages are not in a language that they understand.

The results by volumes are distributed as follows:

• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer

Dataset

This dataset was created by ma7555

Released under GPL 2

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