What is the most common language used by bloggers?
It might surprise some to know that it’s not English but Japanese according to David Sifry. English comes in second with Chinese third.
The interesting thing is that Japanese is on the rise in the last six or so months. In November 05 it made up 31% of posts, in January 06 it made up 32% and now it’s up to 37%. English makes up under a third of total posts.
Of course this measures total numbers of posts in these languages and not numbers of bloggers – perhaps Japanese write a lot more posts per day than English speaking bloggers but I suspect it says more about the international state of the blogosphere – something that doesn’t get a whole heap of attention.
Anyone want to translate ProBlogger into Japanese?