Washington, Dec 18 : Majority of tweets on the microblogging network are not in the mother tongue of the company's founders, despite English being the most popular language on Twitter.

According to Mashable, just over one-third (34 percent) of all tweets were in English in September.

The 10 most popular languages on Twitter are:

1.     English

2.    Japanese

3.    Spanish

4.    Malay

5.    Portuguese

6.    Arabic

7.    French

8.    Turkish

9.    Thai

10.    Korean (ANI)