I think the 3rd paragraph should say "up from 3.0".

Where do you have your language statistics from? E.g. Tatar has 0 speakers in your spreadsheet (instead of ~8 million). I don't know how good the resources from http://www.ethnologue.com/ are, but they seem quite comprehensive. And there's naturally the all-knowing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_by_speakers (which contradicts its own entry on the Tatarian language).

Ah, the list of native speakers is probably better:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

Arthur: the problem is that that list is not correlated by internet population, or by country (for which we have internet population figures). It is no help to know that there are 366,000,000 people in the world who can speak Hindi. What is more important is: how many of them are online?

So to answer the first half of your question: the reason that Tatar has 0 speakers is that no-one has yet given me the % language breakdown by population of any country, a significant number of whose residents speak Tatar.

For example, I currently have 100% of the population of Russia speaking Russian, because no-one has given me any better data. If someone were to find a good source of data for the language breakdown of Russia, it would probably include a number of Tatar speakers - and then that number would rise from 0.

Does that make sense?

So I've now posted an updated version of the spreadsheet which uses Wikipedia figures for language and population to calculate that 3.7% of the Russian population speaks Tatar, and 1.3% Ukranian. That means there's a Tatar internet population of about 900,000 in Russia.

As I said above, better data on percentages of native speakers in countries would be welcome :-)

I founded an outsourced IT company in Baku, Azerbaijan, but unfortunately I don't speak Azerbaijani. But I'll see if there is any interest from the staff in Baku.

What statistics do you have for Azerbaijani speakers? There is a Northern (former Soviet) and Southern (Iranian) dialect, and they use different alphabets.

rkent

I'll be posting about the situation with Malay shortly. And then Tagalog after that as well. Would very much appreciate any thoughts or suggestions or advice.

Hey!
I am a Computer Science Graduate, a blogger and a Entrepreneur from Pakistan. I am very fluent in English and Urdu, reading and writing... and a Geek also! so why not let me help you in this project???
Looking forward to your response! :)

Hey!
I am a Computer Science Graduate, a blogger and a Entrepreneur from Pakistan. I am very fluent in English and Urdu, reading and writing... and a Geek also! so why not let me help you in this project???
Looking forward to your response! :)

Is Croatian ever gonna be released?

Kent James: My spreadsheet currently says that 13% of Iran, 6% of Georgia and 90% of Azerbaijan speak Azerbaijani, making a total of 3.26 million net citizens. Two dialects complicates things. Because of different net population sizes, 75% of that total is from Iran and only 25% from Azerbaijan itself. So we'd want to do the Iranian dialect first. But if the only difference is the alphabet, we can do a mechanical conversion to get the other locale.

Awais Naseer Keyani: Brilliant! I'll be in touch.

Baka_toroi: the localization is done and in Bugzilla, it just needs checking into source control. Given that we've added another beta, I don't think it's too late for Firefox 3.1. But you'd need to ask Seth, Axel or Gandalf.

Gerv

I am a speaker of Tagalog (which is an older orthographic variant of Filipino, the official name in the Philippine constitution and in the education system) and also of Cebuano, which has about as many native speakers and some 10 million or more second language speakers. I am willing to help localize, how do I get started?

Cheers,

Fred

Hi Gerv,
Since you are interested in locales and numbers, etc., please take a look at:
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00206.
It might be useful for metrics etc.

Wim: can you explain how? It seems to give details only of endangered languages which, by definition, probably don't have a large effect on the stats...

hi there, I am from Azerbaijan ofcourse know my native language and some kind of geek) can help with anything I can.

Is not good idea if you all acepptet

I am Usman Aslam, can any one help me to covert the azeri language in to urdu?

My email is bellow.

Usman Aslam.
smart_usman2@yahoo.com