Top 20 Internet Languages

Short online list of the Top 20 Internet Languages from the end of 2009. The spoken languages are arranged in accordance to the number of speakers, the number of Internet users and the total GDP that is generated by the people who speak them. The English, the Chinese and the Spanish language are the most important for epSos.de, because they have the money for online business, the highest official number of native people who speak them and the highest number of Internet Users.

Arabic and Indonesian were the most underdeveloped in 2009 !

By Speakers

Chinese 1.365.053.177
English 914.398.325
Hindi 904.000.000
Spanish 500.000.000
French 500.000.000
Russian 278.000.000
Arabic 246.000.000
Indonesian 240.000.000
Portuguese 240.000.000
German 180.000.000
Persian 144.000.000
Japanese 132.000.000
Korean 80.000.000
Vietnamese 80.000.000
Italian 74.000.000
Turkish 70.000.000
Filipino 48.900.000
Polish 44.000.000
Ukrainian 39.000.000

By GDP = Money

English $15,000 Tera
Chinese $7,926 Tera
Spanish $5,926 Tera
Japanese $4,910 Tera
German $3,673 Tera
Portuguese $3,500 Tera
French $3,000 Tera
Italian $2,314 Tera
Arabic $2,000 Tera
Russian $1,676 Tera
Hindi $1,206 Tera
Korean $929.124 Giga
Persian $830.058 Giga
Turkish $729.983 Giga
Polish $527.866 Giga
Indonesian $511.765 Giga
Ukrainian $179.604 Giga
Filipino $166.909 Giga
Vietnamese $89.829 Giga

By Internet Users

English 478.442.379
Chinese 383.650.713
Spanish 136.524.063
Japanese 95.979.000
French 78.972.116
Portuguese 73.052.600
German 65.000.000
Hindi 60.000.000
Arabic 50.422.300
Russian 45.250.000
Korean 37.475.800
Persian 32.320.000
Italian 30.255.100
Indonesian 30.000.000
Turkish 26.000.000
Filipino 24.000.000
Polish 23.000.000
Vietnamese 21.669.285
Ukrainian 10.354.000

Please note the Importance of GDP and the number of Internet Users !

Official statistics data from newspapers, the unofficial Wikipedia data and the information from the World-Stats website were used as the source for the approximate calculation of the numbers in this table.