Primary language when it comes to blogging

Technorati has a break down of the major language according to the number of post online. Surprisingly English is the second most used language with Japanese language top the chart with 37%.

Mandarin (Chinese) language occupy the third spot, and climbing slowly up the chart and predicted to overtake english language within a few years time. This goest to show the importants of using services such as Altavista’s Babel Fish Translation and Google’s Translation.

In Summary:

• The blogosphere is multilingual, and deeply international
• English, while being the language of the majority of early bloggers, has fallen to less than a third of all blog posts in April 2006.
• Japanese and Chinese language blogging has grown significantly.
• Chinese language blogging, while continuing to grow on an absolute basis, has begun to decline as an overall percentage of the posts that Technorati tracks over the last 6 months
• Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and German are the languages with the greatest number of posts tracked by Technorati.
• The Korean language is underrepresented in this analysis
• Language breakdown does not necessarily imply a particular country or regional breakdown.
• Technorati now tracks more than 100 Million author-created tags and categories on blog posts.
• The rel-tag microformat has been adopted by a number of the large tool makers, making it easy for people to tag their posts. About 47% of all blog posts have non-default tags or categories associated with them.

Source: Technorati

Tags: Blog Language, Blogging Primary Language, rel-tag microformat, Technorati

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