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Internet was born in the U.S.A., therefore most of the websites were originally written in English, and users wrote in English. The number of non-English sites is growing every year. Multilingual internet population is diverging so rapidly as followings,
|
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
|
4 |
7 |
12 |
1 |
4 - 7 |
12 |
2 |
4 - 6 |
7 |
1 |
6 - 10 |
2 - 4 |
7 |
| English |
63.8% |
63.5% |
58% |
55% |
51.3% |
49.6% |
47.6% |
47.5% |
45.0% |
43.0% |
40.2% |
36.5% |
35.8% |
| non-English |
26.7% |
43.6% |
42% |
45% |
48.7% |
50.4% |
52.4% |
52.5% |
55% |
57.0% |
59.8% |
63.5% |
64.2% |
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