According to the American Community Survey 2009, endorsed by the United States Census Bureau, the main languages by number of speakers older than five are: English – 229 million Spanish – 35 million Chinese languages – 2.6 million + (mostly speakers of Yue dialects such as Taishanese and Cantonese, with a growing group of Mandarin speakers) Tagalog – 1.5 million + (Most Filipinos may also know other Philippine languages, e.g. Ilokano, Pangasinan, Bikol languages, and Visayan languages) French – 1.3 million Vietnamese – 1.3 million German – 1.1 million (High German) + German dialects like Hutterite German, Texas German, Pennsylvania German, Plautdietsch Korean – 1.0 million Russian – 881,000 Arabic – 845,000 Italian – 754,000 Portuguese – 731,000 French Creole – 659,000 Polish – 594,000 Hindi – 561,000 Japanese – 445,000 Persian – 397,000 Urdu – 356,000 Gujarati – 341,000 Greek – 326,000 Serbo-Croatian – 269,000 Armenian – 243,000 Hebrew – 222,000 Cambodian – 202,000
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:59:10 +0000
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