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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This chart shows how Chinese became the new French</span></b></p>

<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">By <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/mark-berman/2011/05/26/AGoF40BH_page.html" title="Visit Mark Berman’s website"><span style="color:blue">Mark Berman</span></a>
     </span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">February 28 at 1:34 pm</span></b></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Chinese has overtaken French as the
most common language in the United States other than English or
Spanish, while Tagalog and Vietnamese have leapfrogged Italian and German.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">These are some of the biggest
takeaways from <a href="http://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/045/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">this Census Bureau chart</span></a>
examining how language usage in the country shifted between 1980 and 2010.
Spanish remained the top non-English option, but there was considerable change
elsewhere:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><img src="file:///C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.png" alt="(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)" height="751" border="0" width="880"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">(Source: <a href="http://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/045/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">U.S. Census Bureau</span></a>)</span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Meanwhile, here’s <a href="http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/the-foreign-languages-spoken-in-american-cities/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">a related map</span></a> showing which
languages other than English or Spanish are spoken in maj</span>or cities
across the U.S.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/02/28/this-chart-shows-how-chinese-became-the-new-french/or">http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/02/28/this-chart-shows-how-chinese-became-the-new-french/or</a>
cities across the U.S.</span></p>

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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br>
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