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UNESCO has been emphasizing the concept of “knowledge societies”, which stresses plurality and diversity instead of a global uniformity in order to bridge the digital divide and to form an inclusive information society. An important element of this concept is multilingualism for cultural diversity and participation for all the languages in cyberspace.
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- Language diversity on the Internet: an overview
- Measures and indicators
Figure 1: Number of Internet Users by Language
Figure 2: Proportion of Web Pages by Language
- Global Linguistic Diversity
Table 1: Linguistic diversity index scores by region
Figure 1: Linguistic diversity index by region
- Linguistic Diversity of Internet Information Sources
Figure 3: Proportion of languages on the Web in a random sample of Web pages
- Linguistic Diversity among Internet Users
Figure 4: Estimated language populations of Internet users
Figure 5: Estimated diversity of Internet users
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
