<http://www.glreach.com/globstats/index.php3>http://www.glreach.com/globstats/index.php3 has great stats on online languages. They have English at about 35% of online language at this point (no longer a majority, but still a plurality).
They've been tracking this info since 1995 and have summaries of the growth of Non-English languages here:
<http://global-reach.biz/globstats/evol.html>http://global-reach.biz/globstats/evol.html
mmm hmm. seen those. we've chosen not to rely on Global Reach's statistics or reports because they have a vested interest in providing statistics that encourage people to... surprise... *BUY MORE STATISTICS* from them.
independent verification of the arguments being made by the data they provide really is going to be necessary.
I'm all for independent verification, especially given the difficulty of figuring out what exactly is getting measured here, but I don't follow the logic that because they want to sell more statistics, theirs can't be trusted. Are they more likely to sell future statistics if they misrepresent or make errors? Are there specific ways in which you have reason to believe their estimates are innaccurate? -- Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas 102 Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045, USA Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org