Persons Speaking a Language Other than English at Home, 2005

Language	Persons 5 years old and over who speak language
Population, 5 years and over	268,111,000
Speak only English	216,176,000
Spanish or Spanish Creole	32,184,000
Other Indo-European languages	385,000
French (incl. Patois, Cajun)	1,383,000
French Creole	549,000
Italian	802,000
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole	662,000
German	1,120,000
Yiddish	137,000
Other West Germanic languages	275,000
Scandinavian languages	129,000
Greek	324,000
Russian	812,000
Polish	608,000
Serbo-Croatian	271,000
Other Slavic languages	316,000
Armenian	203,000
Persian	326,000
Gujarathi	276,000
Hindi	462,000
Urdu	303,900
Other Indic languages	586,000
Other Indo-European languages	385,000
Asian and Pacific Island languages	7,769,000
Chinese	2,300,000
Japanese	458,000
Korean	984,000
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	189,000
Miao, Hmong	174,000
Thai	130,000
Laotian	152,000
Vietnamese	1,142,000
Other Asian languages	544,000
Tagalog	1,377,000
Other Pacific Island languages	319,000
Other languages	2,052,000
Navajo	173,000
Other Native North American languages	207,000
Hungarian	99,000
Arabic	687,000
Hebrew	190,000
African languages	582,000
Other and unspecified	114,000

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2005 American Community Survey, C1600; Jan. 3, 2007.

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