Omnia Græce! - The Languages Listed on AO3
While the majority of works on AO3 (a whooping 87%) are written or marked as being in English, there is a total of 152 languages listed on the archive. This is a small overview of stats related to that data
1. MOST USED LANGUAGES
1 . English (en): 13,600,000 works 2 . 中文-普通话 國語 (zh): 1,091,000 works 3 . Русский (ru): 318,900 works 4 . Español (es): 207,800 works 5 . Français (fr): 75,280 works 6 . Português brasileiro (ptBR): 50,120 works 7 . Bahasa Indonesia (id): 46,000 works 8 . Italiano (it): 42,070 works 9 . Deutsch (de): 33,110 works 10 . Українська (uk): 25,800 works 11 . Polski (pl): 20,490 works 12 . Tiếng Việt (vi): 19,540 works 13 . Filipino (fil): 14,900 works 14 . 中文-广东话 粵語 (yue): 11,450 works
(english omitted from the chart for the following reason:)
>1mil works: 2 languages 100k-1mil works: 2 languages 10k-100k works: 10 languages 1k-10k works: 12 languages 100-1k works: 30 languages 10-100 works: 45 languages 2-9 works: 31 languages 1 work: 9 languages 0 works: 11 languages
The languages with zero works are: Finuʼ Chamorro (cha), Furlan (fur), Хальмг Өөрдин келн (xal), kreyòl ayisyen (ht), Nawat (ppl), O’odham Ñiok (ood), لسان عثمانى (ota), Pulaar (fuc), RRomani Ćhib (rom), Slověnьskъ Językъ (sla), ትግርኛ (tir).
A third of the languages (29.6%) have between 10-100 works. Nearly two-thirds (69.7%) have between 2-1k works. Only 9.21% have more than 10k works, and 1.32% has more than 1mil works.
2. TOP TAGS IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES
In 中文-普通话 國語 (zh), the top fandoms are:
Men's Football RPF (21,093 works, 1.93%) 声入人心 | Super-Vocal (18,762 works, 1.72%) 全职高手 - 蝴蝶蓝 | Quánzhí Gāoshǒu - Húdié Lán (16,940 works, 1.55%) Original Work (16,124, 1.48%) Slam Dunk (15,882 1.46%)
The top freeforms used are:
Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics (18,607 works, 1.71%) Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot (14,676 works, 1.35%) Hermaphrodites (13,105 works, 1.20%) Oral Sex (11,500 works, 1.05%) Alternate Universe (11,441 works, 1.05%)
In Русский (ru), the top fandoms are:
Original Work (16,258 works, 5.10%) Harry Potter (13,904 works, 4.36%) 原神 | Genshin Impact (8,339 works, 2.61%) 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù (7,806 works, 2.45%) Marvel Cinematic Universe (7,202 works, 2.26%)
The top freeforms used are:
Romance (50,597 works, 15.87%) Alternate Universe (40,441 works, 12.68%) Drama (35,806 works, 11.23%) Angst (35,046 works, 10.99%) Humor (33,053 works, 10.36%)
In Español (es), the top fandoms are:
Harry Potter (12,922 works, 6.22%) Boku no Hero Academia (7,312 works, 3.52%) Naruto (5,094 works, 2.45%) Módào Zǔshī (4,984 works, 2.40%) Bangtan Boys (4,392 works, 2.11%)
The top freeforms used are:
Fluff (20,344 works, 9.79%) Romance (18,352 works, 8.83%) Angst (16,127 works, 7.76%) Alternate Universe (15,334 works, 7.38%) Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (11,286 works, 5.43%)
It's very interesting seeing how the top used tags vary between languages! If you wish to do some independent looking, check out the AO3 page of available languages - clicking on any language name will bring you to the multi-fandom search page of all works in that language!
