bab.la GmbH - The Internet is axis Red

Store this angel in big size(Hamburg, April 23, 2009) The English accent has bedeviled the Internet back it began, and until afresh has had actual little antagonism for its amount one position. With China now ascent to become one of the fastest growing apple powers, and experiencing the accomplished amount of Internet user advance anytime seen, is this the decade we will see the Internet about-face red?

bab.la has afresh completed a analysis activity aiming to appearance the gap amid announced languages and languages acclimated on the Internet. Not surprisingly, the analysis confirms that Chinese is the a lot of broadly announced accent in the world. Despite this, it currently lags badly abaft English on the Internet and is alone the second-most acclimated accent on this all-important all-around resource. English is "spoken" on the web by about 450 actor people, but Internet user advance in the English-speaking apple is slowing. In contrast, the CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Centre) appear that the amount of Chinese Internet users added by 42% in 2008 to a absolute of 298 million, and has surpassed the USA with its about 225 actor users for the aboriginal time. This top amount of advance is accepted to accept a cogent appulse on the Internet in the abreast future, but absolutely how continued will it crop for these new users to alpha authoritative a cavity in the "English-ness" of the web? According to Erin Gallagher, allotment of the analysis aggregation from bab.la, this may be eventually than we thought. "Based on the accepted levels of growth, we apprehend to see Chinese beat English on the web aural the next 2-3 years" says Ms Gallagher.

Research from bab.la shows that Chinese is not the alone accent with the abeyant to beat English on the web. India, Bangladesh and Indonesia all accept the populations and user advance abstracts to appulse web accent statistics. In fact, abounding now see India as the "new China", with even added abeyant for advance and development over the next generation. The bab.la World Languages Map shows that Hindustani is in actuality the next most-commonly announced accent afterwards Chinese in Asia, giving added weight to this argument. Hindustani (the appellation for the associated dialects of Hindi and Urdu) is announced by added than 900 actor people, and yet it currently has a actual baby Internet presence. India's boundless abeyant for infrastructural development and ascent purchasing ability will absolutely affect the Internet assimilation as it has done in China. Ms Gallagher believes India is in actuality a "sleeping behemothic in the apple of languages" and that it has the abeyant to be as big as China in agreement of users and accent attendance on the net.

The aboriginal two decades of the World Wide Web accept been the "English years", the next decade will be Chinese. What is bright is that English is accident its stronghold, and a added worldwide, added accessible, added red web is on the way.

The bab.la World Languages Map can be accessed at en.bab.la/news/world-languages.html

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bab.la (bab.la/) is an alternate accent aperture alms bilingual dictionaries, cant lessons, accent games, and contemporary quizzes all free. Currently accessible in 13 altered languages (English, Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Turkish), the website operates on a wiki-style model, acceptance users to accord agreeable and feedback.

Contact:Erin Gallagher
Email: erin [at] bab.la
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