LocalizeDirect: Top localization languages in 2020-2021
Asian languages are showing the highest growth.
In 2020 top 5 translation languages looks as follows: German (11,8%), French (11,1%), Spanish (8,6%), Brazilian Portuguese (8,5%), Russian (8,1%).
Asian languages showed the fastest growth from 2016 to 2020. Vietnamese, Thai, and Malaysian languages showed 11x growth. Hindi language popularity increased by 6x times, Tagalog - by 5x, Arabic - by 4x. Currently, those languages are responsible for 5% of the localization market, in 2016 it was 1.4%.
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