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Neptune
15th June 2006, 10:28 PM
I know I have read this before, but having trouble locating the right threads.

Does anyone know the breakdown of Non-Latin scripts vs. Latin with respect to world population. How many people have potential to use IDN's?

In other words what the IDN market potential now and with predicted population growth is? I already have the population #'s , just looking for #'s for non-latin languages

thegenius1
15th June 2006, 10:33 PM
This is what WIKI has listed as far as Global Internet Usage


Total number of users with European languages (excluding English): 276 million

Total number of users with Asian languages (excluding English): 241 million

Language Users (millions)
English 287.5
Chinese 102.6
Japanese 69.7
Spanish 65.6
German 52.9
Korean 29.9
French 28.0
Portuguese 25.7
Italian 24.3
Russian 18.5
Malay 13.6
Dutch 13.5
Arabic 10.5
Polish 9.5
Swedish 7.9
Turkish 5.8
Thai 4.9
Czech 4.2
Hebrew 3.8
Danish 3.5
Persian 3.4
Catalan 2.9
Norwegian 2.9
Finnish 2.8
Greek 2.7
Romanian 2.4
Vietnamese 2.2
Hungarian 1.7
Slovak 1.2
Serbo-Croatian 1.0
Ukrainian 0.9
Slovenian 0.8
Icelandic 0.2