Hi
I wanna share some statics on Indic language on web in Unicode , I conducted a simple search on 18th September 2011 at 9:00 pm with language name in Unicode with three leading search engines Google, Yahoo, Bing . I did't include Sanskrit bacasue is based on the Devanagari script . This latest estimates can help to find the Internet Users by Language (unicode) due to the lack of other sources in data mining and technical issues please consider this analysis is just of information purpose only . * * * Google Yahoo Bing * অসমীয়া (Assamese) 739,000 91,500 196,000 বাংলা (Bengali) 20,400,000 49,600,000 18,600,000 English 8,510,000,000 2,180,000,000 4,190,000,000 فارسی (Farsi) 222,000,000 193,000,000 5,7,000,000 ગુજરાતી (Gujarti) 12,000,000 4,680,000 4,190,000 हिन्दी (Hindi) 251,000,000 70,500,000 1,7400,000 ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) 12,700,000 19,500,000 6,130,000 کًشُر (Kashmiri) 44,300 424,000 7,160 മലയാളം (Malayalam) 23,800,000 36,400,000 13,800,000 मराठी (Marathi) 17,500,000 10,800,000 10,600,000 ଓଡ଼ିଆ (Oriya) 1,550,000 123,000 141,000 ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Punjabi) 23,000,000 4,490,000 2,110,000 தமிழ் (Tamil) 59,800,000 66,100,000 16,600,000 తెలుగు (Telugu) 40,100,000 24,900,000 9,230,000 اردو(Urdu) 49,900,000 43,100,000 10,500,000
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