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Most commonly used languages for URLs compared with their share of native speakers worldwide (2025)

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Most commonly used languages for URLs compared with their share of native speakers worldwide (2025)

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Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 month ago

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Reminds me of the stuff on this wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet

Idk anything about how the data is collected here or there, but it seems like just basing on URL amplifies the English disproportionality.

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