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Most commonly used languages for URLs compared with their share of native speakers worldwide (2025) (www.visualcapitalist.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linguistics@mander.xyz
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[–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Especially when two of the named languages (German and French) are around 20th in L1 speakers.

I'm also interested in knowing how they decide what language a URL is in when lots of languages share words, even more so when you remove diacritics like it's common in URIs. For example, is something like https://example.org/noticia/n-12345.html a Portuguese or Spanish URL?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I wonder that too. How to separate cross-language homonyms and nonsense words in URLs?

    For any individual page, I guess you base it on the page content if the URL language is ambiguous. Like anything with language, feels like it'd be fuzzy and hard to determine.

    Not that I necessarily doubt someone has collected the data, just not sure how internet statistics are figured out.

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