language trends -- See 2000 Census

[Andrew John Conovaloff]

Table 5.
Detailed List of Languages Spoken at Home
for the Population 5 Years and Over by State: 2000
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Language                        United States
5 years and over                  262,375,152
  Speak only English               215,423,557
  Speak other language              46,951,595

  Spanish or Spanish Creole         28,101,052

  Other Indo-European languages    10,017,989
   French (incl. Patois, Cajun)     1,643,838
   French Creole                       453,368
   Italian                           1,008,370
   Portuguese or Portuguese Creol      564,630
   German                            1,383,442
   Yiddish                             178,945
   Other West Germanic languages              251,135
   Scandinavian languages              162,252
   Greek                                      365,436
   Russian                             706,242
   Polish                              667,414
   Serbo-Croatian                      233,865
   Other Slavic languages              301,079
   Armenian                            202,708
   Persian                             312,085
   Gujarathi                           235,988
   Hindi                                      317,057
   Urdu                               262,900
   Other Indic languages                      439,289
   Other Indo-European languages              327,946

  Asian and Pacific Island languages 6,960,065
   Chinese                           2,022,143
   Japanese                            477,997
   Korean                              894,063
   Mon-Khmer, Cambodian                181,889
   Miao, Hmong                         168,063
   Thai                                120,464
   Laotian                             149,303
   Vietnamese                        1,009,627
   Other Asian languages                      398,434
   Tagalog                           1,224,241
   Other Pacific Island languages      313,841

  Other languages                    1,872,489
   Navajo                              178,014
   Other Native N. Amer. languages     203,466
   Hungarian                           117,973
   Arabic                              614,582
   Hebrew                              195,374
   African languages                   418,505
   Other and unspecified languages     144,575

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Find detailed reports at:

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/lang_use.html

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