Announcement of the second report of the series WebMultilingualism: Exploring web presence and multilingualism of European minority languages with associated gTLDs.
The conclusions of the study are:
- Two gTLDs show excellent linguistic performances, both in terms of presence of the minority language and in terms of multilingualism: .cat and .eus; both, specially .eus, have room to increase their presence.
- Two gTLDs, .cymru and .gal, show fair linguistic performance, together with .lu. The case of .lu, the ccTLD of Luxemburg, is to be treated separately, the study highlighting the low presence of the national language in a context of strong multilingualism.
- Three gTLDs show medium results with promises in some of the factors and difficulties in others: .gal, .gales and .bzh.
- Two gTLDs, .corsica and .frl has not reached the point of beneficiating the local language nor multilingualism, and seems to remain in a stage of geographic TLD.
- Finally, .alsace, .irish and .scot do not show linguistic performance and remain geographic domain with limited penetration and linguistic impact at this stage.