[Grovenet] Habla English?

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Aha! Clearly I didn't spend enough time reading it. I was a bit surprised
Chinese wasn't in first place, and had heard that Spanish was close to
English.

I just searched on a ranking of language by number of users, and didn't
realize the table was internet-only. 

Ron D'Eau Claire  

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 12:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Habla English?


Ron,

I looked at that site, and your popularity of languages does deserve  
a caveat, those numbers are for "Internet World Users By Language".   
Not language use worldwide.  The site's  second table indicates that  
estimated users give a different order.

1) Chinese  1,351 M
2) English    1,143 M
3) Spanish      512 M
4) French        388 M
5) Arabic         340 M
6) Portuguese 234 M
7) Japanese   128 M
8) German    96 M
9) Korean     74 M
10) Italian     59 M

On Jan 14, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> Thanks Deena! You are the first to answer the question <G>.
>
> That's sounds like a good approach to handle the issue.
>
> And you're right that, certainly, Spanish is the most common
> language spoken
> here after English.
>
> Just for fun I check on the "popularity" of the World's languages.
> Here's
> the top ten:
>
> 1) English
>
> 2) Chinese
>
> 3) Japanese
>
> 4) Spanish
>
> 5) German
>
> 6) French
>
> 7) Portuguese
>
> 8) Korean
>
> 9) Italian
>
> 10) Arabic
>
> From:
>
> http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
>
> So in the top three two out of three are Asian languages. Hmmmmm....
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire
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