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Persons Speaking a Language Other than
English at Home, 2006
What languages do Americans speak at home? The U.S. Census Bureau
keeps track. This data comes from the 2006 American Community Survey and
is based on sample and subject to sampling variability. No surprise,
English comes in at number one, but dozens of other languages are
represented as well.
| Language |
Persons 5
years old
and over who
speak language |
|
Population, 5 years and over
|
279,012,712
|
|
Speak only English
|
224,154,288
|
|
Spanish or Spanish Creole
|
34,044,945
|
| French (incl. Patois,
Cajun) |
1,395,732 |
| French Creole |
601,886 |
| Italian |
828,524 |
| Portuguese or Portuguese
Creole |
683,405 |
| German |
1,135,999 |
| Yiddish |
152,515 |
| Other West Germanic
languages |
255,414 |
| Scandinavian languages |
130,113 |
| Greek |
353,200 |
| Russian |
823,210 |
| Polish |
640,265 |
| Serbo-Croatian |
271,066 |
| Other Slavic languages |
312,349 |
| Armenian |
216,533 |
| Persian |
348,769 |
| Gujarathi |
298,658 |
| Hindi |
504,607 |
| Urdu |
324,578 |
| Other Indic languages |
612,890 |
| Other Indo-European
languages |
393,519 |
|
Asian and Pacific Island languages
|
8,275,131
|
| Chinese |
2,492,871 |
| Japanese |
475,414 |
| Korean |
1,060,631 |
| Mon-Khmer, Cambodian |
184,351 |
| Miao, Hmong |
187,190 |
| Thai |
140,020 |
| Laotian |
146,625 |
| Vietnamese |
1,207,721 |
| Other Asian languages |
608,960 |
| Tagalog |
1,415,599 |
| Other Pacific Island
languages |
355,749 |
|
Other languages
|
2,255,116
|
| Navajo |
176,280 |
| Other Native North American
languages |
205,470 |
| Hungarian |
97,489 |
| Arabic |
732,519 |
| Hebrew |
225,179 |
| African languages |
696,607 |
| Other and unspecified |
121,572 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, The 2009
Statistical Abstract.
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education,
Inc. All rights reserved.
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