internet use by language

[Mark Allen Peterson]

The problem is that this merely compiles country data.  It doesn't really
tell us in what language these people use the internet.  First language
Arabic speakers may make up 4 percent of the world's on-line community, but
are they accessing it in Arabic or in a second language?  My experience
suggests that not a lot of Arabic is being used, although it is growing. (I
mean, MSN Middle East went on-line in English, not Arabic)

Mark

Dr. Mark Allen Peterson
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
American University in Cairo
113 Kasr el Aini
Cairo 11511 EGYPT
peterson at aucegypt.edu

Media, Culture and Society in the Islamic World
http://www.aucegypt.edu/schools/huss/anth400


----- Original Message -----
From: P. Kerim Friedman <kerim.list at oxus.net>
To: Linganth List <linganth at cc.rochester.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 4:52 PM
Subject: internet use by language


> This site has interesting statistics on internet use by language of the
> online user population. I didn't spend much time figuring out how they
> compile the statistics, but even as a general guesstimate, it is pretty
> interesting.
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> http://www.glreach.com/globstats/index.php3
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