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Chile: What Language Does the Internet Speak?

Categories: Latin America, Chile, Spain

Writing from Santiago, Rosario Lizana cites a recent study [1] by the Spanish newspaper, El Pais, which found that 45% of all web pages on the internet are written in English while only 4.6% are written in Spanish. The reports suggests the creation of an governmental “Agency of Linguistic Coordination” to multiply the amount of online content in Spanish. Juan Pablo Tapia [ES] [2] comments that, according to Sifry's latest “State of the Blogosphere,” [3] only 3% of weblogs are written in Spanish.