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| what language do they speak in the usa?
Im Talking About All Languages
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English is the most common language spoken. The number of languages spoken in the United States is 311. Of these, 162 are indigenous, and 149 are immigrant languages. An indigenous or autochthonous language is a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous peoples. According to the Census Bureau, in 14 million U.S. households people speak a language other than English. One in five people over age 5 speaks a language other than English. The top five languages spoken are English, Spanish, French, Mandarin and German. |
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03-09-2008, 06:51 PM
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Mostly English, but some parts speak Spanish. There are a few boroughs in big cities where Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian or Yiddish is spoken, but these are gradually being assimilated as the older generations are dying off.
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Believe it or not Spanish is becoming the most popular language in the USA but most people speak English
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03-09-2008, 06:53 PM
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mostly English
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Only 30 languages are counted seperately in the US census, all other languages are counted as part of a language group like "Other Indo-European languages". English only 82.105% Spanish 10.710% Chinese (all spoken varieties incl.) 0.78% French (incl. Patois, Cajun) 0.627% German 0.527% Tagalog 0.467% Vietnamese 0.385% Italian 0.384% Korean 0.341% Russian 0.269% Polish 0.254% Arabic 0.234% Portuguese or Portuguese Creole 0.215% Japanese 0.182% French Creole 0.173% Other Indic languages 0.167% African languages 0.160% Other Asian languages 0.152% Greek 0.139% Other Indo-European languages 0.242% Hindi 0.121% Persian 0.119% Other Slavic languages 0.115% Urdu 0.100% Dutch (and Afrikaans) 0.096% Gujarati 0.090% Serbo-Croatian 0.089% Other Native American languages 0.078% Armenian 0.077% Hebrew 0.074% Mon, Khmer 0.069% Yiddish 0.068% Navajo 0.068% Hmong 0.064% North Germanic languages 0.062% Lao 0.057% Thai 0.046% Hungarian 0.045% All other and unspecified 0.055% "United States : Language" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usa#Language "Languages of the United States" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States "Language Spoken at Home (U.S. Census)" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Spoken_at_Home_%28U.S._Census%29 |
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