Top Rising Languages On The Internet

By: Sana Haroon Posted on Thu, 26-05-2016

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7,000 languages are spoken in the world today but nearly half of the population speaks one of just 12 as their first language. As a matter of fact, more than three quarter of all languages is only spoken by a small number of people overall, most of the world’s communication using just handful of dominant vocabularies. When we talk about Internet medium, which is most vastly used interactive medium. The language used more often over Internet is English. But the demand for other languages over Internet is increasing with the time.

 To make feel as home and connected with Internet personally demands for content over Internet in various languages. Now it has become really easy for everyone to convert languages into other by taking help from Translation Services Company. These Language Translation Service Provider help to create the content of Internet into different languages, which is the demand of today’s world as people love to see the content into their own language.

By the landside, the most common language comes from the most popular country, china. With more than 1 to 6 people on earth claiming it as their fist language, Chinese is the primarily spoken by nearly 1.2 billion. Technically Chinese is a macro language made up of 7 major groups spread out over more than 200 different dialects. In particular, Mandarin represents the vast majority of Chinese speakers.

The next language on the list is Spanish, with 400 million native speakers worldwide, it clocks in at less than half of Chinese massive breach. But unlike Chinese, the birth country of Spanish isn’t where it’s most prevalent. Instead of Spain, Mexico takes the crown as the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world. 18 other countries in America are claiming it as an official language. Spanish is also the largest second language in both the US and Canada.

The funny fact is English is not the official language of United States, the US doesn’t even have an official language, and yet, reportedly 97% of its residence speak English. The rest of the top 12 breaks down into Hindi at number 4, spoken predominantly in India. Arabic, throughout the Middle East, rounding out the list are Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese, Lahnda, Javenese and German, with nearly a billion speakers combined. With most of world speaking the few languages it might just be worth your burden your horizons and learn a second one.

How Is Internet Changing The Language Today?

Technology always changes a language, when printing came in the 1400’s it changed the language, telephone came in the 19th century it changed the language with the new patterns of dialogues, and when broadcasting started in the 1920 it changed the language.

When the Internet came into being, it changes the languages. But nobody can think that the language would be so diversified as the result of the internet, simply because people were not able to predict exactly how many different technological variations there are going to be of electronically mediated communication. Just think there is the World Wide Web, Email, Chat room, virtual world, blogging, instant messaging, social networking, twittering, mobile phone texting and it goes on and on.

Now each one of these technologies is new opportunities for communication, produces a new kind of language. In the case of English a new style has been adopted, the language you use in blogging or in instant messaging is not the same.

New styles of English that are emerging as the consequences, basically the actual language itself has not changed that much but it is all about the style and the new style of English is used in differently way, very cleverly. There new styles to exploit, the language have been become expressively richer as the result of the Internet.

English Used As The Internet Language:

English was the first language used over Internet by 1991 when Internet came into being. Although, style of English language has changed, it is turned into abbreviation rather than writing a whole sentence to express ones feeling. But that is never used in the formal way of writing.

But there was a gap between every other language and the English, which created a chance to convert content into various languages.

List Of Top 5 Raising Languages Over The Internet:

Chinese:

Chinese is the highly used language over Internet. Most of the content over Internet is available in Chinese language. As it china is the most populated country in the world and Chinese in the most spoken language in the world, so it makes it most useful language to be used over Internet that’s why 23% of the content over Internet is available in Chinese.

Russian:

Russian has got the higher rank over Internet; Its growth rate was 41.5% since 2011 as 28 million of the Russian population came online since 2010. It is expected that the growth rate will incredibly increase as the more Russian start coming online.

Spanish:

Spanish is also an Indo European language, which is official language of 20 countries which estimates those 410 million native speakers and 550 million people worldwide. The surveys shows that 50% of the Spanish population are connected to the internet, and it is expected that the growth rate of internet content into Spanish will increase in 5-10 years as Spanish population gets more connected with internet.

Portuguese:

From 2011 the rise of Portuguese content over increased up to 56%, but till 2013 only 46% Portuguese were connected with the Internet. It is estimated that Portuguese have created more Internet content than other languages when compare it with their present population over internet which low.

Arabic:

There are very less Arabic speakers who are connected to the Internet, which shows that Arabic makes up to 0.7% of the content over Internet. Arabic shared content over internet has been decreased since 2011. It is presumed that it will start growing faster as its native speakers connected more to the Internet.

As we say content is really important now days, for everyone. Businesses flourish due to right content, because people love to read the content present in their native language. Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish are continuously growing over Internet and it seems to be the most populist languages over internet.

As far as English is concerned it is still the leading language over Internet, and lowering with only 3.6%. The time will come the trend of languages and the culture over Internet will change more and more people would demand the content into their native language. If you are planning to use Internet as the advertising tool make sure your content reflects your audience demand. Make Language Translation as a must key to your business advertising.

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