Chinese to overtake English as the dominant language of the internet

[beijingwalker]

Chinese to overtake English as the dominant language of the internet
Piers Dillon Scott

Chinese will overtake English as the dominate language on the internet in the next five years, according to data collated by TNW.

TNW says that there are over 400m Chinese language internet users, a number approaching the 530m English language internet users. Along with this already large number Chinese has also seen a 1,277% increase in online use in the past decade.

 

[Lyrical Mockery]

most of the others would be using English, right? and their number is also rising.

 

[Adnan Faruqi]

Raising or drowning chinese is of no use as its all censored in china.

If someone goes to any chinese website he/she will see same thing every where because its all provided by cpc/govt. propaganda/views.

 

[true_indian]

Not to mention, only Chinese will be chatting in Chinese, every other nationality would be doing it in English. So the vital discussions would be in English.

 

[beijingwalker]

yes,Indian population is rising fast,do Indian people use other languages online?

 

[Obambam]

If you take the populations of all the English speaking countries and add them up and compare them to the population of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Malaysia then the picture becomes clear. Hardly a surprise really.

 

[kingkobra]

yes,Indian population is rising fast,do Indian people use other languages online?

we do use indian languages but not as much as we use english...it is a fact...but popularity of other language websites is rising these days.

 

[Lyrical Mockery]

just thinking about this,

we are all using English.
So Chinese speakers would certainly rise in number but they'd use English to converse with us non-Chinese speakers. So add 'em up in the list of ppl who use English as a tool for interacting online

 

[Kalyugi Mirza]

just thinking about this,

we are all using English.
So Chinese speakers would certainly rise in number but they'd use English to converse with us non-Chinese speakers. So add 'em up in the list of ppl who use English as a tool for interacting online

ya but they certainly doing everything in fast rate...

 

[patna_ke_presley]

If you take the populations of all the English speaking countries and add them up and compare them to the population of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Malaysia then the picture becomes clear. Hardly a surprise really.

China and Singapore uses simplified Chinese and rest Taiwan, Hongkong,Macau, Malaysia uses Traditional Chinese. I think barrier still remains. Anyway, Chinese will be used among Chinese only when you want to chat to non-Chinese, you have again switch back to English.

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

Not to mention, only Chinese will be chatting in Chinese, every other nationality would be doing it in English. So the vital discussions would be in English.

Yes, only Chinese can keep our language and culture in this internet times. Countires like india are all english slaves.

 

[MINK]

If you take the populations of all the English speaking countries and add them up and compare them to the population of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Malaysia then the picture becomes clear. Hardly a surprise really.

More people speak Spanish than English since long. But Spanish was never been a global language. So, it won't make any difference even if number of Chinese speaker is three times of English speakers. Secondly, English is official language in India too. And So, there are huge population of non-native English speaker as well. So, English will remain dominant language for decades to come.

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

China and Singapore uses simplified Chinese and rest Taiwan, Hongkong,Macau, Malaysia uses Traditional Chinese. I think barrier still remains. Anyway, Chinese will be used among Chinese only when you want to chat to non-Chinese, you have again switch back to English.

Taiwanese has no difficulty in reading simplified chinese and mainlander has no difficulty in reading traditional chinese two.

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

another great milestone.....

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i wish we promoted our languages like you do yours........but

Chinese are proud that we speak chinese, Indians are proud that you speak english. This is the different between our two countries

 

[Lyrical Mockery]

i wish we promoted our languages like you do yours........but

which one would you promote??