English is at the top.

Source: www.businessinsider.com

"Although languages such as Chinese, Arabic, and Hindi are immensely popular, we document an important sense in which these languages are more peripheral to the world’s network of linguistic influence.

For example, the low volume of translations into Arabic, which had been identified as an obstacle to the dissemination of outside knowledge into the Arab world, is indicated by our book translation [global language network] and matched by the peripheral position of Arabic in the Twitter and Wikipedia [global language networks]."

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