This web page offers the latest estimated figures of the number of people online in each language zone (native speakers). It is edited by Global Reach, a marketing communications consultancy that assists clients attract website visitors worldwide from all countries that are online.

This site has annotated links to 180 resources for about 60 languages. About 25% of these resources are produced or published by Indigenous people.

L?Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie accompagne et soutient ses pays membres dans l?élaboration et l?édification de la société de l?information moderne. Elle combat toute forme de discrimination ou d?exclusion et défend des valeurs comme solidarité, égalité et pluralité dans le monde de la communication. Ses missions principales sont la mise en ?uvre de la société de l?information, la diminution de la fracture numérique (digital divide) et la valorisation et le partage des contenus numériques, documentaires et archivistiques francophones.

Arabismo is a Spanish-language website containing linguistic information and a database on the Arabic language. It provides special information about online Arabic language associations, online documentation centers, Arab virtual libraries, Arabic publications, semantics, online lessons and translation engines.

Ethnologue.com is a place where you can conveniently find many resources to help you with your research of the world's languages. Ethnologue.com is owned by SIL International, a service organization that works with people who speak the world?s lesser-known languages.

The charter?s overriding purpose is cultural. It is designed to protect and promote regional or minority languages as a threatened aspect of Europe?s cultural heritage. For this reason it not only contains a non-discrimination clause concerning the use of these languages but also provides for measures offering active support for them: the aim is to ensure, as far as reasonably possible, the use of regional or minority languages in education and the media and to permit their use in judicial and administrative settings, economic and social life and cultural activities.

Portal to the European minority languages maintained by Scotland's Only Gaelic College.

ELSNET is a Europe-based forum dedicated to human language technologies. It operates in an international context and will consider, across discipline boundaries, all human communication research areas related to language and speech. ELSNET aims to advance R&D in human language technologies in Europe by bringing together the key players in the field, and by providing a proactive, open forum which will serve as a platform for launching innovative actions, making analyses of the present, and developing visions for the future. This site contains a number of structures (committees, special interest groups), actions (summer schools, workshops) and services (web site, email lists, newsletter, information dissemination, knowledge brokerage).

Insitutions The Foundation aims at: - raising awareness of endangered languages; - supporting the use of endangered languages in all contexts; - monitoring linguistic policies and practices; - supporting the documentation of endangered languages; - collecting and making available information on preservation of endangered languages.

Three related projects are in progress to improve the status and capacity of the Akan language of Ghana and Ivory Coast. 1. Multilingual dictionary 2. Localization Project 3. Learn Akan Portal

ICVolunteers is a dynamic international non-governmental organization that recruits, trains and coordinates volunteers with specific skills for non-profit projects in the fields of languages, conference support and cybervolunteerism.

Compiled by Internet World Stats.

ITU and UNESCO convened the Global Symposium on Promoting the Multilingual Internet as a follow-up of Phase 2 of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, adopted at the Tunis Phase of WSIS, highlights the importance of multilingualism for bridging the digital divide. It identifies ITU as taking the lead role in the implementation of information and communication infrastructure (WSIS Tunis Agenda Action Line C2), ITU/UNESCO for access to information and knowledge (WSIS Tunis Agenda Action Line C3), and UNESCO for cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content (WSIS Tunis Agenda Action Line C8).

This paper, prepared by M.M. Mulokozi from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, focuses on the process of development and consolidation of Kiswahili as a national language in Tanzania, the factors that favoured its adaptation and the obstacles that have to be overcome. It also reviews the spread and consolidation of Kiswahili as a sub-regional language in Eastern and Central Africa, its potential as a pan-African language, and its spread and status as a world language in the age of globalization and the cyberspace.

La fondation Daniel Langlois a pour vocation de faire avancer les connaissances en art et en science en favorisant leur rencontre sur le terrain des technologies. La fondation souhaite ainsi encourager l'épanouissement d'une conscience critique à l'égard des implications des technologies sur l'homme, ainsi que l'exploration d'esthétiques propres aux nouveaux environnements humains.

This research was undertaken within the framework of UNESCO?s multidisciplinary project Initiative B@bel. This initiative was conceived to promote cultural diversity in general and to seek ways to protect the lesser used languages of the world in particular. The research team was asked to seek ways to amass data on actual language practice on the Internet, in order that policy making in this area could be better informed.

A topically organized list of resources elsewhere on the Internet that may be of interest to the linguist. It is maintained by SIL International (a faith-based organization that studies, documents, and assists in developing the world?s lesser-known languages).

Mercator is a network of three research and documentation centres dealing with the regional and minority languages which are spoken by more than forty million citizens of the European Union. It was set up following the Kuijpers Resolution in the European Parliament and has developed in parallel with subsequent EU and Council of Europe policies for the protection of minorities, equal citizenship, the promotion of linguistic diversity, and access to the information society.

The present issue of UNESCO?s International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS) takes up the previous thematic debate on linguistic diversity, linguistic rights, and language policies (see Vol. 3, No. 1 & 2). It addresses a field of language use which is increasingly relevant for communication and, at the same time, less susceptible to state intervention: the Internet. The articles collected in this issue present research findings of an international socio-linguistic research project on multilingualism on the Internet, which has been carried out in co-operation with the UNESCO project Initiative B@bel.

Between 1996 and 2001, Funredes (non-governmental organization, dedicated to the dissemination of New Information and Communication Technologies in developing countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean) has led several studies on Languages and Cultures on the Internet. The results of these studies are available on this website.

Governmental agreement following the European Union initiative to secure equal rights for all European citizens to participate in the Information Society, without considering their social, cultural, linguistic or geographical situation. To avoid exclusion, information in multilingual versions is promoted.

A study on the use of Swahili in Ugandy by Viera Pawlikova-Vilhanova, Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Wikipedia, the Open Source and collaborative encyclopaedia on the Internet, available in over 150 languages (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias). The aim of wikipedia is to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Really there are more than 200 languages online, but we need people to help us to create articles particularly for the reare languages. If you cannot help us online and you still want to help, please get in contact with us.