This is the first book devoted to analyzing Internet related CMC in languages other than English. The volume collects 18 new articles on aspects of language and use of the Internet, all of which revolve around several major topics: writing systems, structures and features of the local languages and how they affect internet use, code switching between several languages, gender issues, public policy issues, and forth. The scope of languages discussed in the extraordinary volume of large, including non-native English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Spanish, Japanese, Thai, and Portuguese.